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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
Seo-Young Chu
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Hardback. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, this title sheds light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource. It explores the globalized world, cyberspace, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which it locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, and films. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of high-intensity realism capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, realist modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the ... Read more
In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of high-intensity realism capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, realist modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674055179
SKU
V9780674055179
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About Seo-Young Chu
Seo-Young Chu is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
Reviews for Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
Chu has produced a volume that is clever, witty, erudite, impeccably thorough in its reference to both primary and secondary sources, and written in a refreshingly nonformulaic yet unmistakably scholarly tone.
D. C. Maus Choice 20110701
D. C. Maus Choice 20110701