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Author | : Damien Broderick |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434443299 |
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Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.
Author | : Jean-Louis Hippolyte |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 080322429X |
Download Fuzzy Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An evaluation of the work of contemporary French authors through the lens of the fuzzy set theory of mathematics.
Author | : Susana Onega |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-04-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429000057 |
Download The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.
Author | : Dennis Feltham Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780283985294 |
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Author | : D. F. Jones |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147322635X |
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Alien horror becomes a living nightmare as the Xenos, meaning "strangers", inflict mayhem on earth. International distress alerts are sent out when planes first seem to disappear, disturbing concepts of space and time and leaving a trail of death and disillusionment. This bizarre series of "cosmic skyjackings" is shrouded in secrecy by a baffled and frightened military. Intense surveillance fails to reveal the cause of a seemingly hostile yet invisible enemy. Aircraft continue to disappear, plucked out of the sky without warning, only to reappear months later, thousands of miles off course. National and global security is under threat and the ICARUS committee is formed to investigate. Military officials, the government and the FBI work alongside physician Mark Freedman and Soviet scientists to uncover the supernatural mystery that lies behind these unexplainable events. Earth has been found by a horde of creatures that not even the wildest imagination could invent - sinister parasitic creatures that took to their human hosts with deadly speed and bloodthirsty precision. The terror that unfolds has terrifying consequences for all involved, and the invasion reveals something much more frightening and final than ever suspected. Earth Has Been Found is a gripping and chilling first contact sci fi novel, from classic science fiction author D. F. Jones.
Author | : Nora Castle |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 376 |
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ISBN | : 3031416953 |
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Author | : Damien Broderick |
Publisher | : Borgo Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781479400799 |
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Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.
Author | : Andrew James Hartley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107171725 |
Download Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.
Author | : Vanessa Guignery |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2019-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 162273646X |
Download The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of representing our global, media-saturated contemporary experience which differ from modernist and postmodernist experimentations from which the writers nevertheless draw inspiration. This volume aims to investigate some of the most important contributions to fragmentary literature from British and American writers since the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on texts released in the twenty-first century. The chapters within examine whether contemporary forms of literary fragmentation constitute a return to the modernist episteme or the fragmented literature of exhaustion of the 1960s, mark a continuity with postmodernist aesthetics or signal a deviation from past models and an attempt to reflect today’s accelerated culture of social media and over-communication. Contributors theorise and classify literary fragments, examine the relationship between fragmentation and the Zeitgeist (influenced by globalisation, media saturation and social networks), analyse the mechanics of multimodal and multimedial fictions, and consider the capacity of literary fragmentation to represent personal or collective trauma and to address ethical concerns. They also investigate the ways in which the architecture of the printed book is destabilised and how aesthetic processes involving fragmentation, bricolage and/or collage raise ontological, ethical and epistemological questions about the globalised contemporary world we live in and its relation to the self and the other. Besides the aforementioned authors, the volume makes reference to the works of J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Mark Z. Danielewski, David Markson, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson and several others.
Author | : Jean Anderson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441177035 |
Download The Foreign in International Crime Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Fiction examines these popular works as 'transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia, the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on crime writing and transnational literatures.