Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds by Slusser, George

Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820314556)

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Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds by Slusser, George

Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds

$48.95
Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds by Slusser, George

Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds

$48.95
Format: Hardcover
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The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction.

The focus of the book is not entirely on critical restraints but also on the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive--its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. The essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy writing as assess the genre's revolutionary qualities: its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices.

Author: George Slusser
ISBN-10: 0820314552
ISBN-13: 9780820314556
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.23w x 1.00d
By George Slusser
By George Slusser
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George Slusser (Editor)
GEORGE SLUSSER is a professor comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Styles of Creation (Georgia).

Eric S. Rabkin (Editor)
ERIC S. RABKIN is a professor of English and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited twenty books, including The Fantastic in Literature and Teaching Writing That Works.

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