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...

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Main Author: Shippey, Tom (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 20160223
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