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A carregar... Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction (original 2011; edição 2011)por David Seed
Pormenores da obraScience Fiction: A Very Short Introduction por David Seed (2011)
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Useful book with good recommendations for futher reading. (  ) Steve_Walker | Sep 13, 2020 |  This is a brief discussion of recent academic criticism of Science Fiction (both literature and movies). Though the author promises to avoid a historical approach, devoting chapters to themes rather than periods, each chapter turns out to be a small history. This leads to a sense of repetition. Within each chapter the author surveys a variety of critical approaches, citing many examples from Science Fiction books and film, without devoting much attention to any one of them. Though there is a faint Marxist undertone to the book, still, as in many Oxford Very Short Introductions, the appropriate genuflections are made in the directions of all popular critical coteries. In short, this book doesn't say much of interest to the Science Fiction fan, but gets lost in an academic echo chamber. Recommended for undergraduates in literature looking for a compendium of quick references. (  ) anthonywillard | Oct 2, 2012 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature.It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern technological environment. This Very Short Introduction doesn't offer a history of science fiction, but instead ties examples of science fiction to different historicalmoments, in order to demonstrate how science fiction has evolved over time.David Seed looks not only at literature, but also at drama and poetry, as well as film. Examining recurrent themes in science fiction he looks at voyages into space, the concept of the alien and alternative social identities, the role of technology in science fiction, and its relation to time - inthe past, present, and future. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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