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BL
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997882
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b752252
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Philmus, Robert M.
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| Title & Author
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Visions and re-visions : : (re)constructing science fiction /\ Robert M. Philmus.
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| Publication Statement
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Liverpool [England] :: Liverpool University Press,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;; [32]
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1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages).
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| ISBN
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0853238995
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: 1846314372
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: 9780853238997
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: 9781846314377
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0853238995
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9780853238997
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| Notes
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Number in series from publisher's online site.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-400) and index.
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| Contents
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Swift, Zamyatin, and Orwell, and the language of utopia -- Generic configurations of A story of the days to come -- Re-visions of The time machine -- Stanislaw Lem's Futurological congress as a metageneric text -- Karel Čapek's can(n)on of negation -- Olaf Stapledon's tragi-cosmic vision -- C.S. Lewis and the fictions of "scientism" -- Kurt Vonnegut, historiographer of the absurd : The sirens of Titan -- Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinths of time -- "Elsewhere elsewhen otherwise" : Italo Calvino's cosmicomic tales -- Ursula K. Le Guin and time's dispossesion -- Time out of joint : the world(s) of Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle -- A revisionary construction of genre, with particular reference to science fiction.
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| Abstract
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This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time Traveller comes up with regarding a future which perpetually changes under his scrutiny. Rather than being another term for?recursivity?, then,?re-vision? involves the imaginative reconception of some prior text so as to elicit from it a latent meaningful possibility which the original vision was, so to speak, either not fully conscious of or not con.
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Science fiction-- Authorship.
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Science fiction-- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Science Fiction Fantasy.
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Science fiction-- Authorship.
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Science fiction.
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Science-Fiction
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Science-Fiction-Literatur
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Science-Fiction.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.38762
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PR830.S35P57 2005eb
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| Parallel Title
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Reconstructing science fiction
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