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Author Freedman, Carl Howard.

Title Critical theory and science fiction / Carl Freedman.

Publication Info. Hanover : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, [2000]
©2000

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  809.3876 FREEDMAN    Check Shelf
Description xx, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Critical theory -- Science fiction -- Genre, theory, and phases of canon-formation -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and style -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and the historical novel -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and utopia -- Science fiction and the canon -- Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the structure of cognition -- The dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the ambiguities of utopia -- The two of them: Joanna Russ and the violence of gender -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand: Samuel Delany and the dialectics of difference -- The man in the high castle: Philip K. Dick and the construction of realities -- Coda: critical theory, science fiction, and the postmodern.
Subject Delany, Samuel R. Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018. Dispossessed.
Dick, Philip K. Man in the high castle.
Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011 Two of them.
Lem, Stanisław. Solaris.
Lem, Stanisław, 1921- Solaris.
Le Guin, Ursula K., (Ursula Kroeber), 1929- Dispossessed.
Dick, Philip K. (Philip Kindred), 1928-1982. Man in the high castle.
Delany, Samuel R. (Samuel Ray), 1942- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.
Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
ISBN 0819563986 alkaline paper
0819563994 paperback alkaline paper
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