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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor David Roberts (Monash University, Australia) , Dr Andrew Milner (Monash University, Australia) , Dr Peter Murphy (La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350350786ISBN 10: 1350350788 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 22 August 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""Innovative, provocative, and at a level of intellectual seriousness far too rare. ... It should stand as a striking and essential contribution to the long-running debate about sf and form."" --Science Fiction Studies ""Science Fiction and Narrative Form argues that, amid escalating anthropogenic crises, science fiction is essential: only the genre's historicizing imperative and epic scale, its peculiar temporalities and world-building strategies, its absent gods and invisible hands, can make up for the parochial, exhausted literary novel. Magisterial, nuanced - and highly recommended."" --Mark Bould, Reader in Film & Literature, Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education, University of West England, UK" """Science Fiction and Narrative Form argues that, amid escalating anthropogenic crises, science fiction is essential: only the genre's historicizing imperative and epic scale, its peculiar temporalities and world-building strategies, its absent gods and invisible hands, can make up for the parochial, exhausted literary novel. Magisterial, nuanced - and highly recommended."" --Mark Bould, Reader in Film & Literature, Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education, University of West England, UK" Author InformationAndrew Milner is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Australia. His publications include Locating Science Fiction (2012), Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2018), (with J. R. Burgmann) Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (2020). Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia. His publications include The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004). David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Australia. His publications include History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (2021), The Total Work of Art in European Modernism (2011) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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