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Locating Science Fiction (Paperback)
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Locating Science Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 44
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Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially
paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary
theoretical debates about SF.
Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in
relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in
relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and
television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other
contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold
new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other
genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts
of its emergence and development.
Locating Science Fiction effects a series of vital shifts in the
way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away
from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and
estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of
what is actually a messy amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.
Inspired by Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre
Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Franco Moretti's application of
world systems theory to literary studies, Locating Science Fiction
draws on the disciplinary competences of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Sociology to produce a
powerfully persuasive mode of analysis, engagement and argument.
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