In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory. Rieder starts from the premise that science fiction and the other genres usually associated with so-called genre fiction comprise a system of genres entirely distinct from the pre-existing classical and academic genre system that includes the epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, romance, the lyric, and so on. He proposes that the field of literary production and the project of literary studies cannot be adequately conceptualized without taking into account the tensions between these two genre systems that arise from their different modes of production, distribution, and reception. Although the careful reading of individual texts forms an important part of this study, the systemic approach offered by Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System provides a fundamental challenge to literary methodologies that foreground individual innovation.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System
On Defining Science Fiction, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History
The Mass Cultural Genre System
Genealogies of SF
Philip K. Dick’s Mass Cultural Epistemology
Communities of Interpretation (1): Two Hollywood Films and the Tiptree Award Anthologies
Communities of Interpretation (2): Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism
Conclusion: Periodizing SF
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Circa l’autore
John Rieder is professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Although he has published work on English Romanticism, and on the professionalization of literary studies, for the last fifteen years he has focused his research agenda on science fiction, contributing essays to Extrapolation, Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, Paradoxa and other venues. His book on early science fiction Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction and Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System was published by Wesleyan University Press. He currently serves as a coeditor of Extrapolation.Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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