Teaching Science Fiction [electronic resource] /
Sawyer, A.editor.
Wright, P.editor.
Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Notes on Contributors -- Why Teach Science Fiction?--A.Sawyer &--P.Wright -- A Short History of Science Fiction--P.Kincaid -- Theorising Science Fiction--G.K.Wolfe -- Teaching Utopia, Anti-Utopia and Science Fiction--C.Ferns -- Teaching Pulp Science Fiction--G.Westfahl -- Teaching Golden Age Science Fiction--L.Yaszek -- Teaching the New Wave--R.Latham -- Teaching Postmodern Science Fiction--A.Butler -- Teaching Gender and Science Fiction--B.Attebery -- Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction--U.Mehan -- Teaching Latin American Science Fiction: A Case Study--L.Ginway -- Science Fiction and Curriculum Design--A.Sawyer &--P.Wright -- Further Reading.
Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.
Teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Art education.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Creativity and Arts Education.