{"product_id":"locating-science-fiction-andrew-milner-9781781381168","title":"Locating Science Fiction","description":"\u003cem\u003eLocating Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcademic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLocating Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e effects a series of vital shifts in the way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of what is actually a messy amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Inspired by Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Franco Moretti's application of world systems theory to literary studies, \u003cem\u003eLocating Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e draws on the disciplinary competences of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Sociology to produce a powerfully persuasive mode of analysis, engagement and argument.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Milner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178138116X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781381168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.13w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Milner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eLiterature, Culture and Society\u003c\/em\u003e (2nd ed, Routledge, 2004) and \u003cem\u003eRe-imagining Cultural Studies \u003c\/em\u003e(Sage, 2002).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Milner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125358817535,"sku":"9781781381168","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ee88aad-a7d0-47be-8e20-bd1c45045b73.jpg?v=1687442163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/locating-science-fiction-andrew-milner-9781781381168","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}