Alfred Bester's The stars my destination : a critical companion / D. Harlan Wilson.
Wilson, D. Harlan, author.
2022
PS3552.E796
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Title Alfred Bester's The stars my destination : a critical companion / D. Harlan Wilson.
Author Wilson, D. Harlan, author.
ISBN 9783030969462 (electronic bk.)
3030969460 (electronic bk.)
9783030969455
3030969452
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96946-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-96946-2 doi
Call Number PS3552.E796
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.54
Summary In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Besters SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilsons study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilsons view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become. D. Harlan Wilson is an American novelist, playwright, editor, critic, and Professor of English at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, USA. He is the author of over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed June 7, 2022).
Series Palgrave pivot.
Palgrave science fiction and fantasy.
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