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

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

Rabkin, Eric S.
Slusser, George

Hardcover

Series: Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fict

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0820314552
ISBN13: 9780820314556
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Jan 1 1993
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.23 Depth: 9.31
Language: English

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.

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