Reading by Starlight Postmodern Science Fiction (Popular Fiction S.)
Science fiction's impact on popular culture has been striking. Yet sf's imaginative texts often baffle or dismay readers trained to enjoy only the literary or canonical'. Reading by Starlight explores those characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a mode. Damien Broderick analyses the postmodern self-referentiality of the science fiction narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive encyclopaedia'.
He shows how, for rich understanding, sf readers must learn the codes and vernacular of these imaginary worlds while absorbing the lived in futures' generated by the overlapping intertexts of many sf writers. Reading by Starlight includes close readings of cyberpunk and other postmodern texts, and writings by such sf novelists and theorists as Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Delany, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Swanwick and John Varley.This item is in the category "Books, Comics & Magazines\Books". The seller is "loveourprices2" and is located in this country: GB.
This item can be shipped to United Kingdom.- EAN: 9780415097888
- UPC: 9780415097888
- ISBN: 9780415097888
- Item Length: 23.5 cm
- Publication Year: 1994
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Book Title: Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
- Item Height: 234mm
- Author: Damien Broderick
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Topic: Literature, Books
- Item Width: 156mm
- Item Weight: 544g
- Number of Pages: 216 Pages