Teaching Science Fiction (Teaching the New English) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230228518 ISBN 13: 9780230228511

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

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About the Author

BRIAN ATTEBERY Professor of English, Idaho State University, USA MARK BRAKE Professor of Science Communication, University of Glamorgan, UK ANDREW M. BUTLER Independent Scholar CHRIS FERNS Professor of English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada M. ELIZABETH GINWAY Associate Professor of Portuguese, University of Florida, USA NEIL HOOK Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, University of Glamorgan, UK PAUL KINCAID Independent Scholar ROB LATHAM Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, USA ADAM ROBERTS Professor Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London, UK GARY WESTFAHL Lecturer in English, University of California, Riverside, USA GARY K. WOLFE Professor of Humanities and English, Roosevelt University, USA LISA YASZEK Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230228518
• ISBN 13: 9780230228511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293
• Editor: Sawyer A., Wright P.