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LEADER: 03051nam a22003378a 4500
001 2010008963
003 DLC
005 20100316155253.0
008 100312s2010 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010008963
020 $a9780786447930 (softcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPR830.S35$bP73 2010
082 00 $a823/.087609$222
245 00 $aPracticing science fiction :$bcritical essays on writing, reading and teaching the genre /$cedited by Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, Patrick B. Sharp and Lisa Yaszek.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co., Publishers,$c2010.
263 $a1005
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface / Karen Hellekson -- Introduction: teaching with science fiction / Craig B. Jacobsen -- Grokking rhetoric through science fiction: a practical examination of course construction / Jen Gunnels -- Incorporating science fiction into a scientific rhetoric course / Michael J. Klein -- Revealing critical theory's real-life potential to our students, the digital nomads / Jason W. Ellis -- Introduction: reading and writing SF / Patrick B. Sharp -- Reading/writing Martians: seeing techne and poiesis in The war of the worlds / Charles Harding -- The creation of Heinlein's "solution unsatisfactory" / Ed Wysocki -- Entropy, entertainment, and creative energy in Ben Bova / Donald M. Hassler -- Introduction: media and science fiction / Karen Hellekson -- Investigating the postmodern memory crisis on the small screen / Susan A. George -- Text's resistance to being interpreted: unconventional relationship between text and reader in Watchmen / Ho-Rim Song -- "Breathe, baby, breathe!" ecodystopia in Brazilian science fiction film / Alfredo Suppia -- Introduction: women and writing / Lisa Yaszek -- Hail the conquering Campbellian s/hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx / Eileen Donaldson -- Essentialism and constructionism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling / Kristen Lillvis -- Joanna Russ and the murder of the female child: we who are about to-- / Rebekah Sheldon -- Learning to listen, listening to learn: the Taoist way in Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling / James Thrall.
520 $a"These essays address the intersections among the reading, writing, and teaching of science fiction, placing analytical and pedagogical research next to each other to reveal how SF can be both an object of study and a teaching tool, examining SF as a genre of mediation between the sciences and the humanities, and SF in the media"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aScience fiction, English$xStudy and teaching.
650 0 $aScience fiction, American$xStudy and teaching.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xStudy and teaching.
650 0 $aScience fiction films$xStudy and teaching.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xAuthorship.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xRhetoric$xStudy and teaching.
700 1 $aHellekson, Karen,$d1966-
700 1 $aJacobsen, Craig B.
700 1 $aSharp, Patrick B.,$d1967-
700 1 $aYaszek, Lisa,$d1969-