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The Cambridge companion to fantasy literature
\"Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at the history of fantasy 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 of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who edited The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, historical chapters trace science fiction from Thomas More to more recent years, including a chapter on film and television. The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspiration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume, including Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Joan Slonczewski, and Damien Broderick.
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Diana Wynne Jones
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Farah Mendlesohn is a noted science fiction critic and historian. She is Editor of the journal Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction and has twice served as a judge for the esteemed Arthur C. Clarke award for best work in sf. She co-edited, with Professor Edward James, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction .
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Aliens in popular culture
\"An indispensable resource, this book provides wide coverage on aliens in fiction and popular culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. 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 of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
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دليل كمبريدج للخيال العلمي
\"يقع الخيال العلمي فى نقطة تقاطع مجالات عديدة، فهو أدب يستمد مادته من الثقافة العامة، ويشتغل بالافتراضات اللانهائية بشأن العلم والتاريخ وكل أنماط العلاقات الاجتماعية. يضم هذا الكتاب مقالات نقدية لباحثين وكتاب فى مجال الخيال العلمى، تنظر إلى هذا الجنس الأدبى من زوايا مختلفة. بعد مقدمة عن طبيعة الخيال العلمى تأتى الفصول التى تقتفى أثر الخيال العلمى فى التاريخ بدءا بتوماس مور حتى زماننا الحاضر، بما فى ذلك فصل عن الخيال العلمى فى الأفلام والتلفاز. ويقدم القسم الثانى من الكتاب أربع مقاربات نقدية مهمة للخيال العلمى : الماركسية، وما بعد الحداثة، والنسوية، ونظرية الانحراف الجنسي. أما القسم الأكبر فى الكتاب فهو الأخير، الذى يضم مقالات عن الموضوعات المتنوعة والأجناس الأدبية الثانوية المختلفة داخل أدب الخيال العلمى.\".
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Curating Science Fiction in the ‘Rainbow Age’
\"Science Fiction in the Rainbow Age\" described something I've been trying to say for a while: that far from fragmenting into niches as some mourn, we have never been stronger, but that the notion of one single community, if it ever did exist, is untenable, and that we need to understand ourselves as an overlapping, intersecting and continually changing and flowering bouquet of interests, experiences, and identifications: what critic Kat Tanaka Opnik has described as a prismatic community. The elements I am going to talk about are all in their way narrators and curators of science fiction, and as such, they shape the community (and communities) with which we as academics engage (and also curate). Fandom is older, maler, whiter, diverse mostly, I think, in its internationalism across the English-speaking world; fandom is ever more female and diverse in a range of ways that include color, ethnicity, language, sexuality, and other characteristics.2 The Fandom I \"grew up\" in descends from the letter pages of the science fiction magazines, in what one might jokingly call an apostolic succession. In this written paper, I'm able to distinguish between fans (everyone, from gate show attendees, fanfic writers, online discussants and any other engagements), and Fans, part of a community which circles around WSFS, the World Science Fiction Society, an organization that actually has very little authority other than that granted to it by consensus (calls for WSFS to Do Something, tend not to understand that it has no actual power).
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