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This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres ...
This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.
The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' ...
Booker, m.K. (2004) Science Fiction Television, Westport, CT: praeger. ... Geraghty, L. (2003) “Homosocial Desire on the Final Frontier: kinship, the American romance, and Deep Space Nine's 'Erotic Triangles,'” Journal of Popular ...
Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence.
The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, ...
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life.