Name: Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (en Inglés)
Price: 367188.00 COP
Availability: InStock
Author: Shippey, Tom
ISBN: 9781781382615

portada Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (en Inglés)

Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Tom Shippey

Editorial

Liverpool University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781781382615

Categorías

Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas
Ciencia ficción
Fantasía
Historia general y del mundo

Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (en Inglés)

Tom Shippey (Autor) · Liverpool University Press · Tapa Dura

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 18 a 24 días háb.

$ 734.377$ 367.188

-50%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan 100 unidades

$ 367.188

¡Envío Gratis! Llega entre el 17 Jul y el 29 Jul a Bogota, Cundinamarca. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (en Inglés)"

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a "high-information" genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, "the right word", preferring le mot imprévisible, "the unpredictable word". Both ideals shun the facilior lectio, the "easy reading", but for different reasons and with different effects. The essays argue further that science fiction derives much of its energy from engagement with vital intellectual issues in the "soft sciences", especially history, anthropology, the study of different cultures, with a strong bearing on politics. Both the rhetoric and the issues deserve to be taken much more seriously than they have been in academia, and in the wider world. Each essay is further prefaced by an autobiographical introduction. These explain how the essays came to be written and in what ways they (often) proved controversial. They, and the autobiographical introduction to the whole book, create between them a memoir of what it was like to be a committed fan, from teenage years, and also an academic struggling to find a place, at a time when a declared interest in science fiction and fantasy was the kiss of death for a career in the humanities.