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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the
historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture
studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic
formation, it examines SF's many lines of cross-pollination with
technocultural realities since its inception in the nineteenth
century, showing how SF's unique history and subcultural identity
has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of
science and technology. The volume consists of four broadly themed
sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, "Science
Fiction as Genre," considers the internal history of SF literature,
examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities,
its animating social and commercial institutions, and its
relationship to other fantastic genres. Section II, "Science
Fiction as Medium," presents a more diverse and ramified
understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic
and pop-cultural expression, canvassing extra-literary
manifestations of SF ranging from film and television to videogames
and hypertext to music and theme parks. Section III, "Science
Fiction as Culture," examines the genre in relation to cultural
issues and contexts that have influenced it and been influenced by
it in turn, the goal being to see how SF has helped to constitute
and define important (sub)cultural groupings, social movements, and
historical developments during the nineteenth, twentieth, and
twenty-first centuries. Finally, Section IV, "Science Fiction as
Worldview," explores SF as a mode of thought and its intersection
with other philosophies and large-scale perspectives on the world,
from the Enlightenment to the present day.
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