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- ISBN
- 9780819570925
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819570923
ISBN-13
9780819570925
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99623545
Product Key Features
Book Title
Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
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Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully.... (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF-or any critic who reads it for pleasure-may need., "Csicsery-Ronay brings together a wealth of material to demonstrate the transformative power of the 'seven beauties.' Highly recommended for all readers interested in the ways in which science fiction relates to our past, present, and possible futures."--N. Katherine Hayles, author of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary "This remarkable book is full of fascinating ideas, resolutely stripped of academic jargon, and a worthy addition to the growing body of work devoted to deciphering the ancient ancestry and the many-faceted aesthetic of science fiction.""--Gwyneth Jones, author of Bold as Love "Csicsery-Ronay brings together a wealth of material to demonstrate the transformative power of the 'seven beauties.' Highly recommended for all readers interested in the ways in which science fiction relates to our past, present, and possible futures."--N. Katherine Hayles, author of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully…. (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF-or any critic who reads it for pleasure-may need." -Stephen Burt, Contemporary Literature, "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."-Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies, "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefullyÉ. (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SFÑor any critic who reads it for pleasureÑmay need." ÑStephen Burt, Contemporary Literature, " after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sf Csiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."-Darran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television, "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."--Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully.... (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF--or any critic who reads it for pleasure--may need." --Stephen Burt, Contemporary Literature "...after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sf...Csiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."--Darran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television, "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully . (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF-or any critic who reads it for pleasure-may need." -Stephen Burt, Contemporary Literature, "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully.... (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF-or any critic who reads it for pleasure-may need." -Stephen Burt, Contemporary Literature, "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."--Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies, "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."--Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies "after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sfCsiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."--Darran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."--Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully. (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF--or any critic who reads it for pleasure--may need."--Stephen Burt, Contemporary Literature, "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."--Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies "Csicsery-Ronay brings together a wealth of material to demonstrate the transformative power of the 'seven beauties.' Highly recommended for all readers interested in the ways in which science fiction relates to our past, present, and possible futures."--N. Katherine Hayles, author of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary "This remarkable book is full of fascinating ideas, resolutely stripped of academic jargon, and a worthy addition to the growing body of work devoted to deciphering the ancient ancestry and the many-faceted aesthetic of science fiction."--Gwyneth Jones, author of Bold as Love "after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sfCsiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."--Darran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."--Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies "Csicsery-Ronay writes clearly and usefully. (He) provides a readable synthesis, mixing explication with advocacy, and providing examples from almost every domain in SF: it is a synthesis that almost anybody who teaches or writes about SF--or any critic who reads it for pleasure--may need."--Stephen Burt, Contemporary Literature, "The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..."ÑRoger Luckhurst, Science Fiction Studies, The book overflows with insights, striking readings, provocative stances, productive ambiguities, and eminently quotable phrases..., ...after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sf...Csiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory., "…after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sf…Csiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."-Darran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television, "Éafter reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sfÉCsiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."ÑDarran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television, "...after reading Seven Beauties, it is difficult to conceive of that which is not sf...Csiscery-Ronay offers a means of thinking about the appearance of sf elsewhere. For the readers, spectators and subjectiles of the twenty-first century, such an attempt to bridge the generic gulf could not be more timely. That this is a paradoxical bridge, one that folds into a mobius strip of returns, makes Seven Beauties only the more exciting, as it offers new tricks to the old dogs of genre theory."-Darran Jorgensen, Science Fiction film and Television
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
809.38762
Table Of Content
Preface Introduction: Science Fiction and This Moment First Beauty: Fictive Neology Second Beauty: Fictive Novums Third Beauty: Future History Fourth Beauty: Imaginary Science Fifth Beauty: The Science-Fictional Sublime Sixth Beauty: The Science-Fictional Grotesque Seventh Beauty: The Technologiade Concluding Unscientific Postscript: The Singularity and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become what Csicsery-Ronay calls science fictional, stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the "seven beauties" of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technsocience's development into a global regime., A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become what Csicsery-Ronay calls science fictional, stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the "seven beauties" of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technsocience's development into a global regime.
LC Classification Number
PN3433.5
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- e***v (129)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseOverall, it went well. Good communication. I wanted the book to be shipped in a box, because the value and scarcity of the volume I purchased deserved it, however, the company is too large and I was informed the book would be shipped in a plastic mailer. Somehow it didn’t arrive very damaged, a little bump, but for the price I can’t complain. Over all I am satisfied, but if you’re a book collector, as I am, you may want to find another seller.Aurora: The Dayspring, or Dawning of the Day in the East, Boehme, Jacob, 9781558 (#236039083546)
- 1***j (84)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat experience. Seller responded promptly with quick shipping. The item was well packaged. The seller was great. Prices and descriptions of the merchandise were accurate.
- s***a (781)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis company has been, in my experience, a mixed bag. This title was NOT worth the price because it came with highlighting, ink underlineing & writing in the margins...not the quality that they advertised. I have on other occasions gotten books in great condition, however, that were listed in less than the condition advertised so it goes both ways...but I'd much prefer a company that delivers exactly what they advertise. I guess good help is hard to find. The book was well packaged & came fast.