[PDF.13tu] Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP)

Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP)

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 | #1750120 in Books |  2016-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x.90 x9.30l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Brilliant Consideration of Science Fiction and the Humanities|By Michael|Tom Shippey has long been one of the most perceptive and incisive scholars of science fiction and the broader field of the "fantastic," and HARD READING brings together many of his most important essays. Shippey's writings have many distinctions: they are clear, comprehensive and witty. They are based no|About the Author||Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus at Saint Louis University and has published widely, especially on J. R. R. Tolkien. He was special academic advisor to director Peter Jackson for the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit films.|

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", preferring le mot imprévisible, "the unpredictable word". Both ideals shun the facilior lectio, the "easy reading", but for different reasons and ...

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