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Locating Science Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Locating Science Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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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