• Media type: Book
  • Title: Practicing science fiction : critical essays on writing, reading and teaching the genre
  • Contains: Preface / Karen Hellekson
    Introduction: teaching with science fiction / Craig B. Jacobsen
    Grokking rhetoric through science fiction: a practical examination of course construction / Jen Gunnels
    Incorporating science fiction into a scientific rhetoric course / Michael J. Klein
    Revealing critical theory's real-life potential to our students, the digital nomads / Jason W. Ellis
    Introduction: reading and writing SF / Patrick B. Sharp
    Reading/writing Martians: seeing techne and poiesis in The war of the worlds / Charles Harding
    The creation of Heinlein's "solution unsatisfactory" / Ed Wysocki
    Entropy, entertainment, and creative energy in Ben Bova / Donald M. Hassler
    Introduction: media and science fiction / Karen Hellekson
    Investigating the postmodern memory crisis on the small screen / Susan A. George
    Text's resistance to being interpreted: unconventional relationship between text and reader in Watchmen / Ho-Rim Song
    "Breathe, baby, breathe!" ecodystopia in Brazilian science fiction film / Alfredo Suppia
    Introduction: women and writing / Lisa Yaszek
    Hail the conquering Campbellian s/hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx / Eileen Donaldson
    Essentialism and constructionism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling / Kristen Lillvis
    Joanna Russ and the murder of the female child: We who are about to-- / Rebekah Sheldon
    Learning to listen, listening to learn: the Taoist way in Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling / James Thrall.
  • Contributor: Hellekson, Karen [Editor]
  • Published: Jefferson, NC [u.a.]: McFarland & Co, 2010
  • Extent: VI, 220 S.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780786447930; 0786447931
  • RVK notation: HG 672 : Science-Fiction
  • Keywords: Science-Fiction-Literatur > Rezeption
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: "These essays address the intersections among the reading, writing, and teaching of science fiction, placing analytical and pedagogical research next to each other to reveal how SF can be both an object of study and a teaching tool, examining SF as a genre of mediation between the sciences and the humanities, and SF in the media"--Provided by publisher

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