Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination [electronic resource] : A Critical Companion / by D. Harlan Wilson.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783030969462
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/5121
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2022.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 124 p. 1 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, 2662-8570
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. .
Özet, vb.
In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalizationof our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become. D. Harlan Wilson is an American novelist, playwright, editor, critic, and Professor of English at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, USA. He is the author of over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction.
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Fiction.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
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Fiction Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Popular Culture.
Film and Television Studies.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
America __ Literatures.
Popular Culture.
Motion pictures.
Television broadcasting.
Fiction Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Popular Culture.
Film and Television Studies.
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