Hard Reading

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 juste, “the...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Shippey, Tom
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool University Press 2021
Subjects:	Literature literary studies science fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Online Access:	1004071
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