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Narrative, Religion and Science
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 39.00An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric and imagery are manipulative, and irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented... more...
A Companion to Science Fiction
Wiley 2008; US$ 196.95A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international... more...
Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 28.00Chu examines works by T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston and others, to explore how modernists perceived their work and their identities in relation to state power. This book offers a powerful critique of key themes for scholars of modernism, American literature and twentieth-century literature. more...
To Seek Out New Worlds
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 39.00This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction.... more...
The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 99.50In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject, Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period. In detailed studies of literary works he goes on to show how the topic is central to an understanding of British and Irish Romantic literature. While... more...
Jules Verne
Liverpool University Press 2000; US$ 70.00This collection of essays reflect the diversity of approaches currently being brought to bear on the writings of Jules Verne. more...
The A to Z of Utopianism
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present. more...
The Business of Science Fiction
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00Two prolific and award-winning science fiction writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg, have been publishing a "Dialogue" in every issue of the SFWA Bulletin, official publication of the Science Fiction Writers of America, for more than a decade. These collected columns explore every aspect of the literary genre, from writing to marketing... more...
Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 63.45Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the e more...
Architecture of the Novel
Counterpoint 2010; US$ 15.95Jane Vandenburgh, the author of two highly acclaimed novels and a recent memoir, offers aspiring writers the tools to create powerful and unique novels filled not only with good writing but also dynamic storytelling. Architecture of the Novel is an ambitious blueprint for writers, one that reveals the underlying machinery that propels a plot that... more...









