Hard Reading Learning from Science Fiction
The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue 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 j...
Format: | eBook |
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Language: | English |
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
2016
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Series: | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
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Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
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