Science FictionPolity, 06.05.2005 - 305 Seiten In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre. Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a constantly modulating record of how human embodiment is transformed by scientific and technological change and how the very sense of self is imaginatively recomposed in popular fictions that range from utopian possibility to Gothic terror. This highly readable study charts the overlapping yet distinct histories of British and American science fiction, with commentary on the central authors, magazines, movements and texts from 1880 to the present day. It will be an invaluable guide and resource for all students taking courses on science fiction, technoculture and popular literature, but will equally be fascinating for anyone who has ever enjoyed a science fiction book. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Conditions of Emergence | 15 |
The Scientific Romance and the Evolutionary Paradigm | 30 |
Pulp Fictions and the Engineer Paradigm | 50 |
The Technocultural Conjuncture | 79 |
American SF 19391959 | 92 |
England after 1945 | 120 |
The 1960s | 141 |
The 1970s | 167 |
The 1980s | 196 |
The 1990s | 220 |
Notes | 245 |
Selected Bibliography | 294 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. E. Van Vogt abduction aesthetic Aldiss alien Allen American SF anthology argued Astounding Science Fiction atomic avant-garde Ballard body bomb Brian Brian Aldiss Britain British Cambridge Campbell century Cornelius critical critique cultural history cybernetic cyberpunk David decade Dick Edison emerged engineer England English entropy essay evolutionary explored fantasy Feminism feminist film further references future gender genre Gernsback Gibson global Gothic Heinlein horror Hugo Gernsback human hybrid Ibid ideological imagined industrial J. G. Ballard John literary literature Machine magazine mass culture Mechanism ment Michael Moorcock mode modernity Moorcock narrative Neuromancer novel nuclear Oankali Pohl political popular post-war Postmodernism produced published pulp Robert Routledge Science Fiction London Science Fiction Studies science-fictional scientific romance scientists sexual short stories social society space opera splatterpunk suggests Suvin technocratic theory tion Tiptree Tolkien tradition traumatic trilogy utopia Victorian vision Wave Wells's whilst writing York
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