Worlds of Wonder
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Worlds of Wonder

  1. 170 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Worlds of Wonder

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No longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.

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Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780776617459
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Crítica literaria en la ciencia ficción

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. "Another Dimension of Space": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin
  4. The Canadian Apocalypse
  5. Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma
  6. Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre
  7. More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner
  8. Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone
  9. "Half In and Half Out of Things": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch
  10. Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb
  11. Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious?
  12. A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction
  13. Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece
  14. Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
  15. Le Nord Électrique, Travel Book
  16. A Distant Mirror: Ideology and Identity in Québec's Science Fiction by Women
  17. "The World Is Its Own Place": Denys Chabot's Infernal Utopia
  18. The Ordinary and the Fabulous: Canadian Fantasy Literature for Children