Reading by Starlight : Postmodern Science Fiction

Name: Reading by Starlight
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415097895
Price: 8800 KES
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ISBN: 9780415097895

by Damien Broderick

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Popular Fictions Series

ISBN-10 0415097894

ISBN-13 9780415097895

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 1st, 1994

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 398 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 23.30 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Including studies of leading science fiction and cyberpunk texts, Damien Broderick considers the characteristic writing, marketing and reception of sci-fi which distinguish it as a genre.

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.
Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia''. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.
Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.

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