Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction /
Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He sho...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Series: | Popular fiction series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Modern science fiction. 1. New World, New Texts. 2. Generic Engineering. 3. Genre Or Mode? 4. The Uses of Otherness. 5. Reading the Episteme. 6. Dreams of Reason and Unreason. 7. The Stars My Dissertation
- pt. II. Postmodern science fiction. 8. Making Up Worlds. 9. Allography and Allegory. 10. SF as a Modular Calculus. 11. The Multiplicity of Worlds, of Others. 12. The Autumnal City.
