Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction

Mark Rose

Published by Harvard University Press 1981

Alien Encounters

Anatomy of Science Fiction

Mark Rose

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674423145

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Mark Rose is Director of the University of California at Irvine Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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An established Spenser and Shakespeare scholar here takes science fiction seriously. Without trying to borrow respectability for it, he places it within the context of recent western ideas and belles-lettres...[and] offers it as the most responsive vehicle for the alienated modern sensibility.

[Rose] writes pleasantly and translucently in his important study, Alien Encounters...He persuasively argues that `the opposition of human versus inhuman...defines the field of interest within which science fiction as a genre characteristically operates'...He has something fresh and apposite to say, and goes a good way toward a ground-breaking definition of science fiction's characteristic concerns. These appear not only in the surface structures of science fiction, but also lurking within its subterranean metaphors.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vi
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GENRE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Science fiction -- History and criticism.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674423145

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1981
ISBN: 9780674423121