Practicing science fiction
Subtitle: critical essays on writing, reading and teaching the genre
By: edited by Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, Patrick B. Sharp and Lisa Yaszek.
Contributors: Hellekson, Karen, 1966-; Jacobsen, Craig B.; Sharp, Patrick B., 1967-; Yaszek, Lisa, 1969-
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786447930
Subjects: Science fiction, English -- Study and teaching; Science fiction, American -- Study and teaching; Science fiction -- Study and teaching; Science fiction films -- Study and teaching; Science fiction -- Authorship; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Karen Hellekson; title: Introduction: teaching with science fiction / Craig B. Jacobsen; title: Grokking rhetoric through science fiction: a practical examination of course construction / Jen Gunnels; title: Incorporating science fiction into a scientific rhetoric course / Michael J. Klein; title: Revealing critical theory's real-life potential to our students, the digital nomads / Jason W. Ellis; title: Introduction: reading and writing SF / Patrick B. Sharp; title: Reading/writing Martians: seeing techne and poiesis in The war of the worlds / Charles Harding; title: The creation of Heinlein's "solution unsatisfactory" / Ed Wysocki; title: Entropy, entertainment, and creative energy in Ben Bova / Donald M. Hassler; title: Introduction: media and science fiction / Karen Hellekson; title: Investigating the postmodern memory crisis on the small screen / Susan A. George; title: Text's resistance to being interpreted: unconventional relationship between text and reader in Watchmen / Ho-Rim Song; title: "Breathe, baby, breathe!" ecodystopia in Brazilian science fiction film / Alfredo Suppia; title: Introduction: women and writing / Lisa Yaszek; title: Hail the conquering Campbellian s/hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx / Eileen Donaldson; title: Essentialism and constructionism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling / Kristen Lillvis; title: Joanna Russ and the murder of the female child: we who are about to; title: / Rebekah Sheldon; title: Learning to listen, listening to learn: the Taoist way in Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling / James Thrall.