Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction

by Tom Shippey

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a "high-information" genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, "the right word",...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781382611
• ISBN13: 9781781382615
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"