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Lädt ... Science Fictionvon Adam Roberts
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This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon of science fiction. Adam Roberts provides a concise history of science fiction also explaining key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology. He examines the interactions between science fiction and science fact, anchoring each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert's Duneto Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black. Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential guide to a major cultural movement. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)809.38762Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery and Speculative Fiction Speculative Fiction Science FictionKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.82)
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On origins:
"...two broad approaches to the question of origins, and the difference between these two approaches focuses different ways of understanding the nature of SF. Stress the relative youth of the mode, and you are arguing that SF is a specific artistic response to a very particular set of historical and cultural phenomena: for instance, that SF could only have arisen in a culture experiencing the Industrial Revolution, or one undergoing the metaphysical anxieties of what nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘the Death of God’. Stress the antiquity of SF, and you are arguing instead that SF is a common factor across a wide range of different histories and cultures, that it speaks to something more durable, perhaps something fundamental in the human make-up, some human desire to imagine worlds other than the one we actually inhabit." (48-49)
Roberts himself is somewhere between these two approaches, arguing that SF is a symbolist genre whose "symbols are deployed within a rationalised and materialist discourse, most usually that of ‘science’ and ‘pseudoscience’. The point of this symbolic medium is to connect the exploration of the encounter with difference to our experience of being-in-the-world." Interestingly, he therefore argues that it was not the authors of [b:The Epic of Gilgamesh|19351|The Epic of Gilgamesh|Anonymous|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348503432s/19351.jpg|3802528] nor Shelley nor Wells that gave the world its first SF text, but rather identifies Milton's [b:Paradise Lost|15997|Paradise Lost|John Milton|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1309202847s/15997.jpg|1031493] as the first text to explore the "the world of difference" in what would become a properly SF mode, noting that "Milton’s Satan is the original bug-eyed monster." (