Worlds of Wonder: Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy LiteratureCamille R. La Bossière, Jean-François Leroux University of Ottawa Press, 2004 - 202 páginas No longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture. Published in English. |
Contenido
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William Gibsons Neuromancer and Douglas Couplands Girlfriend in a Coma | 47 |
New Fantasy as a Canadian Postcolonial Genre | 57 |
The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana and Randy Bradshaws The Song Spinner | 73 |
Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdys The White Bone | 81 |
Boundaries in Sean Stewarts The Night Watch | 95 |
Whats Wrong with the Obvious? | 119 |
A Scientists Relationship with Science Fiction | 131 |
Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimovs The Caves of Steel and Sawyers Golden Fleece | 139 |
The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James | 147 |
Le Nord Électrique Travel Book | 155 |
Ideology and Identity in Québecs Science Fiction by Women | 167 |
Denys Chabots Infernal Utopia | 181 |
Canadian Fantasy Literature for Children | 189 |
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Página 152 - Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely, 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Página 17 - Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.
Página 63 - The recesses of the domestic space become sites for history's most intricate invasions. In that displacement, the borders between home and world become confused; and, uncannily, the private and the public become part of each other, forcing upon us a vision that is as divided as it is disorienting.
Página 63 - ... the estranging sense of the relocation of the home and the world the unhomeliness - that is the condition of extra-territorial and cross-cultural initiations.
Página 84 - The question of desire is that the fading subject yearns to find itself again by means of some sort of encounter with this miraculous thing defined by the phantasm.
Página 190 - To make a Secondary World inside which the green sun will be credible, commanding Secondary Belief, will probably require labour and thought, and will certainly demand a special skill, a kind of elvish craft. Few attempt such difficult tasks. But when they are attempted and in any degree accomplished then we have a rare achievement of Art: indeed narrative art, story-making in its primary and most potent mode.
Página 81 - When I prepared this little talk for you, it was early in the morning. I could see Baltimore through the window and it was a very interesting moment because it was not quite daylight and a neon sign indicated to me every minute the change of time, and naturally there was heavy traffic, and I remarked to myself that exactly all that I could see, except for some trees in the distance, was the result of thoughts, actively thinking thoughts, where the function played by the subjects was not completely...
Página 185 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 190 - I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.