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The influence of imagination : essays on science fiction and fantasy as agents of social change / edited by Lee Easton and Randy Schroeder.
- Title
- The influence of imagination : essays on science fiction and fantasy as agents of social change / edited by Lee Easton and Randy Schroeder.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co, c2008.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.S35 I44 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 228 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This collection of qualitative essays explores the potential connections between speculative narrative in fictional works and actual social change. Through a variety of approaches and methodologies, the contributors explore whether consumers of science fiction and fantasy narratives can experience a real shift in their worldviews or ideologies as a result of that consumption"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The continuum of meaning: A reflection on speculative fiction and society / Marie Jakober -- Peter Jackson and the deforestation of Middle Earth / David Hyttenrauch -- Seeking stories: Possible worlds semantics in Greer Ilene Gilman's Moonwise / Christine Mains -- "Dancing on the edge of the world": California and Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home / Ken Simpson -- Passing genes in GATTACA, or, straight genes for the queer guy / Lee Easton -- The changing role of women in science fiction: Weird Tales, 1925-1940 / Mary Hemmings -- Storytelling and folktales: A graphic exploration / Gail de Vos -- The graphic novel as new testament: On narrative progress, cultural change and the heroic story / Richard Harrison -- Science fiction, religion, and social change / Steven Engler -- Science and science fiction / Todd C. Nicle -- Olaf Stapledon's Americanized planet / Robert Boschman -- Nalo Hopkinson's colonial anf dystopic worlds in Midnight Robber / Ruby S. Ramraj -- "Wartime inventions with peaceful intentions": Television and the media cyborg in C.L. Moore's No woman Born / Linda Howell -- The fantasy of gender/sex: Angela Carter and mythmaking / Darlene M. Juschka -- In the spirit of process: a braiding together of new Utopianism, Gilles Deleuze, and Anne Carson / Jacqueline Plante -- Dystopia in a new land / Karyn Huenemann -- Surfing the singularity: Science fiction and the future of narrative media / Brian Greenspan.
- ISBN
- 9780786432301 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0786432306 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007037182
- OCLC
- 173367402
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library