Visions and re-visions : (re)constructing science fiction / Robert M. Philmus.

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Philmus, Robert M [author.]

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TextSeries: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 32.Publication details: Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781846314377
1846314372
0853238995
9780853238997

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Reconstructing science fiction

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Visions and re-visions.DDC classification:

809.38762 22

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PR830.S35 P57 2005eb

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Contents:

Swift, Zamyatin, and Orwell, and the language of utopia -- Generic configurations of A story of the days to come -- Re-visions of The time machine -- Stanislaw Lem's Futurological congress as a metageneric text -- Karel Čapek's can(n)on of negation -- Olaf Stapledon's tragi-cosmic vision -- C.S. Lewis and the fictions of "scientism" -- Kurt Vonnegut, historiographer of the absurd : The sirens of Titan -- Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinths of time -- "Elsewhere elsewhen otherwise" : Italo Calvino's cosmicomic tales -- Ursula K. Le Guin and time's dispossesion -- Time out of joint : the world(s) of Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle -- A revisionary construction of genre, with particular reference to science fiction.

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Summary: This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time Traveller comes up with regarding a future which perpetually changes under his scrutiny. Rather than being another term for?recursivity?, then,?re-vision? involves the imaginative reconception of some prior text so as to elicit from it a latent meaningful possibility which the original vision was, so to speak, either not fully conscious of or not con.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-400) and index.

This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time Traveller comes up with regarding a future which perpetually changes under his scrutiny. Rather than being another term for?recursivity?, then,?re-vision? involves the imaginative reconception of some prior text so as to elicit from it a latent meaningful possibility which the original vision was, so to speak, either not fully conscious of or not con.

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