Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction

A Genre Study

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In the years after 1950 a new generation of authors began to expand the thematic scope of Science Fiction, while also extending its narrative conventions by introducing ideas from modern psychology and surrealism. Science Fiction shares the new themes - the quest of identity, the relativity of time and consciousness, the overlapping of illusion and reality - with works of modern and especially postmodern fiction. On the other hand, the innovative postmodern fiction of Pynchon, Borges, Vonnegut, and William Burroughs incorporates Science Fiction motifs, thereby blending the two genres. This book, in a series of juxtapositions and contrastive l… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8204-1670-0
EAN: 9780820416700
Produktnummer: 19063158
Verlag: Lang, Peter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Seitenangabe: 268 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 550 g
Reihenbandnummer: 29
Gewicht: 550

Über den Autor

The Author: Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz is Akademische Oberraetin at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in English for a dissertation on Shakespeare's sonnets. Besides writing articles for professional journals on Shakespeare's plays, Restoration Drama, Afro-American Literature, and Stephen Crane, she also published German translations of two Shakespearean plays. Dr. Puschmann-Nalenz has also taught at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO., the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Texas A & M University, College Station, TX.