Science Fiction

Toward a World Literature

AvGeorge Slusser,Gary Westfahl

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He explores how key thinkers like René Descartes, Benjamin Constant, Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser’s overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and Israel. Hayles’s foreword provides a useful summation of the book’s contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford contributes an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life and thoughts of his longtime friend. The book was edited by Slusser’s former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in his own right.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-22
Mått:154 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666905373

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George Slusser was professor of comparative literature and curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, at the University of California, Riverside. Gary Westfahl is professor emeritus at the University of La Verne.

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I applaud George Slusser’s expansive efforts to see outside the generic box in terms of broadening science fiction to encompass world literature. Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature is newly remarkable because Gary Westfahl rescued his deceased mentor’s work and infused it with life. Slusser’s bold vision of science fiction as rightfully global literature currently underscores that every science fiction scholar is present on the planet for a limited time. Westfahl addresses the science fiction scholarly community’s cohesiveness. He assures us that when we are no longer on Earth our books will be remembered—and our memory will be cherished.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: A Novel Method for Constructing Science Fiction’s Originsby N. Katherine HaylesNotes on the Textby Gary WestfahlIntroduction: Science Fiction:Toward a World LiteratureChapter OneThe Paradigms of Science FictionChapter TwoFraternal Frontiers: Defining a Space for LiteratureChapter ThreeFuture Liberty: Nineteenth Century HorizonsChapter FourExtending the Mind Circle: DeQuincey’s English Mail CoachChapter FiveGenre at the Crossroads: Cultural Readings of Maupassant’s “Le Horla”Chapter SixBernal’s Masterplot and the Transhuman PromiseChapter SevenEach Man Is an Island: The Legacy of Emerson’s Golden AgeConclusionThe Fortunes of Science FictionAfterword: Knowing Georgeby Gregory BenfordA Brief Bibliography of the Works of George Slusser

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