Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds

by George Edgar Slusser

Book Overview

The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction.

The focus of the book is not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820314552
• ISBN13: 9780820314556
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"