Critical Theory and Science Fiction

by Carl Freedman and Carl Howard Freedman

Book Overview

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.

Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He asserts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563994
• ISBN13: 9780819563996
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"