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Practicing Science Fiction : Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre

by Hellekson, Karen

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  • ISBN: 9780786447930
  • ISBN10: 0786447931

Practicing Science Fiction : Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre

by Hellekson, Karen

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  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
  • Publish date: 05/11/2010
  • ISBN: 9780786447930
  • ISBN10: 0786447931
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Description: Table of Contents Preface --KAREN HELLEKSON PART 1. TEACHING Introduction: Teaching with Science Fiction --CRAIG B. JACOBSEN 1. Grokking Rhetoric through Science Fiction: A Practical Examination of Course Construction --JEN GUNNELS 2. Incorporating Science Fiction into a Scientific Rhetoric Course --MICHAEL J. KLEIN 3. Revealing Critical Theory's Real-Life Potential to Our Students, the Digital Nomads --JASON W. ELLIS PART 2. READING AND WRITING Introduction: Reading and Writing SF --PATRICK B. SHARP 4. Reading/Writing Martians: Seeing Techne and Poiesis in The War of the Worlds --CHARLES HARDING 5. The Creation of Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory" --EDWARD WYSOCKI 6. Entropy, Entertainment, and Creative Energy in Ben Bova --DONALD M. HASSLER PART 3. MEDIA Introduction: Media and Science Fiction --KAREN HELLEKSON 7. Investigating the Postmodern Memory Crisis on the Small Screen --SUSAN A. GEORGE 8. Text's Resistance to Being Interpreted: Unconventional Relationship between Text and Reader in Watchmen --HO-RIM SONG 9. "Breathe, baby, breathe!" Ecodystopia in Brazilian Science Fiction Film --ALFREDO SUPPIA PART 4. WOMEN Introduction: Women and Writing --LISA YASZEK 10. Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx --EILEEN DONALDSON 11. Essentialism and Constructionism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling --KRISTEN LILLVIS 12. Joanna Russ and the Murder of the Female Child: We Who Are About To... --REBEKAH SHELDON 13. Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: The Taoist Way in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling --JAMES H. THRALL About the Contributors Index
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