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Styles of Creation

Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds

George Slusser editor Eric S Rabkin editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Published:1st Jan '93

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The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction.

The focus of the book is not entirely on critical restraints but also on the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive—its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. The essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy writing as assess the genre's revolutionary qualities: its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices.

ISBN: 9780820314556

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 621g

280 pages