Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction - Softcover

Rose, Mark

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9781583485330: Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583485333 ISBN 13: 9781583485330

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

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The book is exciting. It is a contribution to genre theory . . . But most of all it is a book that finally puts science fiction into a context achieved enough in its individual readings and broad enough in its allusions to non-science fiction works to recoup this vital literature for serious scholarly study. Michael Holquist

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�Rose� writes pleasantly and translucently in his important study, "Alien Encounters..".He persuasively argues that the opposition of human versus inhuman...defines the field of interest within which science fiction as a genre characteristically operates'...He has something fresh and apposite to say, and goes a good way toward a ground-breaking definition of science fiction's characteristic concerns. These appear not only in the surface structures of science fiction, but also lurking within its subterranean metaphors. -- Peter Nicholls "Washington Post Book World" An established Spenser and Shakespeare scholar here takes science fiction seriously. Without trying to borrow respectability for it, he places it within the context of recent western ideas and belles-lettres...[and] offers it as the most responsive vehicle for the alienated modern sensibility. [Rose] writes pleasantly and translucently in his important study, "Alien Encounters,.".He persuasively argues that the opposition of human versus inhuman...defines the field of interest within which science fiction as a genre characteristically operates'...He has something fresh and apposite to say, and goes a good way toward a ground-breaking definition of science fiction's characteristic concerns. These appear not only in the surface structures of science fiction, but also lurking within its subterranean metaphors. -- Peter Nicholls "Washington Post Book World" "[Rose] writes pleasantly and translucently in his important study, "Alien Encounters..".He persuasively argues that the opposition of human versus inhuman...defines the field of interest within which science fiction as a genre characteristically operates'...He has something fresh and apposite to say, and goes a good way toward a ground-breaking definition of science fiction's characteristic concerns. These appear not only in the surface structures of science fiction, but also lurking within its subterranean metaphors." --Peter Nicholls, "Washington Post Book World" "An established Spenser and Shakespeare scholar here takes science fiction seriously. Without trying to borrow respectability for it, he places it within the context of recent western ideas and belles-lettres...[and] offers it as the most responsive vehicle for the alienated modern sensibility." --"American Literature"

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