Gary K. Wolfe

Evaporating Genres

Essays on Fantastic Literature

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In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally evaporate into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers unlearned how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evol… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8195-7104-5
EAN: 9780819571045
Produktnummer: 13828633
Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

GARY K. WOLFE is a professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University. He is the author of several books, most recently Soundings: Reviews 1992–1996 (2005), as well as hundreds of essays and reviews. In addition to his scholarly work, he is contributing editor and lead reviewer for Locus magazine.