Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (edited) by George E. Slusser
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1983
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Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (edited) by George E. Slusser Firm, bright copy. First Edition, 86 85 84 83 4 3 2 1. Cloth with gold lettering. 209 pp. Essays presented at the 3rd J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy. A critical work examining the cultural, literary, and theoretical contexts of speculative fiction. It offers insightful perspectives on how science fiction and fantasy are situated within broader literary studies.
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- Title
- Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (edited) by George E. Slusser
- Author
- George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Fine
- Book Type
- BOOK
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809311054
- ISBN 13
- 9780809311057
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Science Fiction
These thirteen original essays were written specifically for the Third J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held February 21?22, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside.
Leslie Fiedler sets the tone of this volume by fixing a basic set of coordinates?that of ?elitist and ?popular standards.
Those replying to his charge are: Eric S. Rabkin, Professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of The Fantastic in Literature, ?The Descent of Fantasy; Gerald Prince, Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania, ?How New is New?; Mark Rose, Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, author of Alien Encounters, ?Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of Science Fiction; Joseph Lenz, who teaches English Literature at the University of Michigan, ?Manifest Destiny: Science Fiction Epic and Classical Forms; Michelle Massé, of the English Department at the George Mason University, ??All you have to do is know what you want: Individual Expectations in Triton; Gary K. Wolfe, who teaches English at Roosevelt University, author of The Known and the Unknown, ?Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptations in Science Fiction: ?Waldo and ?Desertion; Robert Hunt, an editor with Glencoe Press, ?Science Fiction for the Age of Inflation: Reading Atlas Shrugged in the 1980s; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at UCLA, ?Fahrenheit 451 and the ?Cubby-Hole Editors of Ballantine Books; H. Bruce Franklin, Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University at Newark, ?America as Science Fiction: 1939; Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor of English at the University of California at Davis, and coauthor with Susan Gubar of Madwoman in the Attic, ?Rider Haggards Heart of Darkness; the aforementioned Susan Gubar, Professor of English at Indiana University, ?She in Her/and: Feminism as Fantasy; and George R. Slusser, Curator of the Eaton Collection, ?Death and the Mirror: Existential Fantasy.
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About the Author
Robert Scholes, coeditor of the volume, is Professor of English and Chairman of the Semiotics Program at Brown University.
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