EAN: 9780820416700

SCIENCE FICTION AND POSTMODERN FICTION - BARBAR...

In the years after 1950 a new generation of authors began to expand the thematic scope of
Science Fiction  while also extending its narrative conventions by introducing ideas from
modern psychology and surrealism. Science Fiction shares the new themes - the quest of identity
the relativity of time and consciousness  the overlapping of illusion and reality - with works
of modern and especially postmodern fiction. On the other hand  the innovative postmodern
fiction of Pynchon  Borges  Vonnegut  and William Burroughs incorporates Science Fiction motifs
thereby blending the two genres. This book  in a series of juxtapositions and contrastive
literary analyses  clarifies and questions existing genre borderlines and breaks new ground in
the literary theory of postmodern fiction and of Science Fiction.

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