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Novels by aliens : weird tales and the twenty-first century
- Title
- Novels by aliens : weird tales and the twenty-first century / Kate Marshall.
- Author
- Marshall, Kate, 1976-
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- 215 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Twenty-first century fiction and literary study have taken a decidedly weird turn: they show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall's Novels by Aliens explores this development broadly while focusing on problems of genre fiction. She identifies three key generic hybrids that harness a longing for the nonhuman: The Old Weird, an alternative tradition within naturalism and modernism for the twenty-first century's cowboys and aliens; Cosmic Realism, the reach for words legible only from space in otherwise terrestrial narratives; and Pseudoscience Fiction, which imagines speculative futures beyond human life on earth. Marshall's book offers sharp and surprising insights about a breathtaking range of authors, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kazuo Ishiguro, Willa Cather to Maggie Nelson"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Critiques littéraires.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Dispatches from the Extinguished World -- The Old Weird -- Cowboys and Aliens -- Cosmic Realism -- The Novel in Geological Time -- Pseudoscience Fictions -- After Extinction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-2193
- ISBN
- 9780226827827
- 0226827828
- 9780226827834
- 0226827836
- 9780226827841 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023007832
- OCLC
- 1372130913
- Author
- Marshall, Kate, 1976- author.
- Title
- Novels by aliens : weird tales and the twenty-first century / Kate Marshall.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-2193