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Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fictionby Robyn McCallum
Routledge 1999; US$ 133.00This book examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language and narrative. more...
Fantasyby Rosemary Jackson
Routledge 1981; US$ 37.95This study argues against vague interpretation of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative.The issues that are bought up are discussed in relation to a wide range of fantasies with varying images. more...
Romanceby Barbara Fuchs
Routledge 2004; US$ 22.95Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition. This useful guidebook charts the transformations of 'romance' throughout literary history and explores its use. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fictionby Edward James; Farah Mendlesohn
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 24.00Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields; it draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from different angles. more...
Imaginary Communitiesby Phillip E. Wegner
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers... more...
A Companion to Science Fictionby David Seed
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 188.95A 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 range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects... more...
Science Fictionby Adam Roberts
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 22.95Reflecting the developments in the field, this edition provides an introduction to science fiction, which is a popular area of modern culture. It presents a concise history of science fiction, along with explanations of key concepts in the genre. It also includes case studies drawn from "Dune", "Star Wars", and "The Left Hand of Darkness". more...
The History of Science Fictionby Adam Roberts
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 30.00Tracing the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece, this critical history covers both literary SF and cinema/TV. Written in lively, accessible prose, this study is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and the SF fandom. more...
To Seek Out New Worldsby Jutta Weldes
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 101.00Through 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...
Jules Verneby Edmund J. Smyth
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...









