Gary K. Wolfe 
Evaporating Genres [EPUB ebook] 
Essays on Fantastic Literature

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<P>In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally ‘evaporate’ into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers ‘unlearned’ how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years.</P>

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<P>Preface<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>GENRES<BR>Malebolge, or the Ordnance of Genre<BR>Evaporating Genres<BR>Tales of Stasis and Chaos<BR>The Encounter with Fantasy<BR>The Artifact as Icon in Science Fiction<BR>The Remaking of Zero<BR>Frontiers in Space<BR>WRITERS<BR>The Lives of Fantasists<BR>Peter Straub and the New Horror (with Amelia Beamer)<BR>Twenty-First-Century Stories (with Amelia Beamer)<BR>CRITICS AND CRITICISM<BR>Pilgrims of the Fall<BR>Notes<BR>Works Cited<BR>Index</P>

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<P>GARY K. WOLFE is a professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University. He is the author of several books, most recently Soundings: Reviews 1992–1996 (2005), as well as hundreds of essays and reviews. In addition to his scholarly work, he is contributing editor and lead reviewer for Locus magazine.</P>

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 280 ● ISBN 9780819571045 ● Dimensione 1.2 MB ● Casa editrice Wesleyan University Press ● Città CT. 06459 ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2012 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2346551 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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