Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers - Hardcover

 
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What is the relationship between science fiction and social, political and sexual radicalism? Does science fiction open up margins for resistance and experimentation? What sort of discourse is science fiction? How can we best situate science fiction in terms of its historical context? Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers addresses these and other key current issues in science fiction studies. The collection includes the latest work by some of the major figures in contemporary science fiction criticism. It focuses on the major theoretical issues within science fiction as a genre, and provides examples of critical perspectives applied to specific texts. Many of these texts regularly appear on undergraduate science fiction courses.

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KAREN SAYER is a lecturer in literary studies at the University of Luton. She published her first monograph Women of the Fields: Representations of Rural Women in the Nineteenth Century in 1995. Her second monograph A Cottage in the Country is due in 1999.

JOHN MOORE is senior lecturer in literary studies at the University of Luton. He is the author of numerous essays on science fiction and in 1997 was the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's Pioneer Award for the best critical essay in the field.

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ISBN 10:  0312281129 ISBN 13:  9780312281120
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