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Locating Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP) 🔍
Andrew Milner Liverpool Science Fiction Text, Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44, 1, 2012
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Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF.
Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development.
Locating Science Fiction effects a series of vital shifts in the way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of what is actually a messy amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Inspired by Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Franco Moretti's application of world systems theory to literary studies, Locating Science Fiction draws on the disciplinary competences of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Sociology to produce a powerfully persuasive mode of analysis, engagement and argument.
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Milner, Andrew;
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Liverpool University Press
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44, First edition, Liverpool, 2012
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies, Liverpool, 2014
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, Liverpool, 2013
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44, 2014
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Liverpool University Press / Books, Liverpool, 2012
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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Oxford, 2013
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1, US, 2013
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1, 2014
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Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1. Memories of Dan Dare
Memories of Science Fiction. Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction. Memories of Dan Dare. Tales of Resonance and Wonder.
2. Science Fiction and Selective Tradition
Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction. Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Rethinking Genre. Rethinking Tradition.
3. Science Fiction and the Cultural Field
From the French Literary Field to the Global Science Fiction Field. Ideas and Effects. Science Fiction as Drama. Science Fiction as Prose. The Restricted Economy and Institutionalised Bourgeois Art.
4. Radio Science Fiction and the Theory of Genre
Cultural Materialism as Method. Radio Technology and Science Fiction. Radio Science Fiction Forms: Three Texts. Radio Institutions.
5. Science Fiction, Utopia and Fantasy
The North American Argument. The European Argument. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction.
6. Science Fiction and Dystopia
The Antipathy to Dystopia. The Strange Case of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. Science Fiction as a Generic Context. Three Intertexts. An Ideal Typology and Some Hypotheses.
7. When Was Science Fiction?
Long Histories of Science Fiction. Science Fiction and the Structure of Feeling. Form and History.
8. Where Was Science Fiction?
Postcolonial Theory and Science Fiction. World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction: The Anglo-French Core. The European Semiperiphery. From the Semiperiphery to Core: North America and Japan.
9. The Uses of Science Fiction
Future Stories and Futurologies. Antipodean Utopias. On the Beach and The Sea and Summer. Anticipations of Phil Chase. Afterword.
Works Cited
Notes
Index
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Locating Science Fiction Is A Major Intervention In Contemporary Theoretical Debates About Science Fiction As A Literary, Film And Television Genre And Its Relation To The Immediately Cognate Genres Of Utopia, Dystopia And Fantasy. It Asks And Attempts To Answer Three General Questions About Science Fiction: First, What Was It? (a Question That Is Addressed Both Positively, In Relation To The Genre Itself, And Negatively, In Relation To Utopia, Dystopia And Fantasy); Second, When Was It? That Is, What Was Its Time?; And Third, Where Was It? That Is, What Was Its Geographical Space? Through A Comparative And Historical Framework That Draws Upon Raymond Williams' 'cultural Materialism', Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology Of Culture And Franco Moretti's Application Of World-systems Theory To Comparative Literary Studies, Milner Delivers A Critical Tour-de-force That Will Push Science Fiction Studies Into New Directions. Memories Of Dan Dare -- Science Fiction And Selective Tradition -- Science Fiction And The Cultural Field -- Radio Science Fiction And The Theory Of Genre -- Science Fiction, Utopia And Fantasy -- Science Fiction And Dystopia -- When Was Science Fiction? -- Where Was Science Fiction? -- The Uses Of Science Fiction. Andrew Milner. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 199-230) And Index.
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A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.
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2022-07-07
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