Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives /

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Imprint:	New York : Routledge, [2010] ©2010
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 3 Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 3.
Subject:	Science fiction -- History and criticism. Cyberpunk culture. Technology in literature. Postmodernism (Literature) Literature and technology. Cyberpunk culture. Literature and technology. Postmodernism (Literature) Science fiction. Technology in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12012006

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Other authors / contributors:	Murphy, Graham J., 1970- editor. Vint, Sherryl, 1969- editor.
ISBN:	9780203851968 020385196X 0415876877 9780415876872 9780415876872 1136973184 9781136973185 1282629654 9781282629653 9786612629655 6612629657
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpun.
Other form:	Print version: Beyond cyberpunk. New York : Routledge, 2010 9780415876872
Standard no.:	9786612629655

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk
Part 1. Situating Cyberpunk
1. Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk
2. "A Rare State of Ferment": SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk
3. Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition
4. Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon
Part 2. The Political Economy of Cyberpunk
5. Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
6. "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification
7. Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life
8. Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk
Part 3. The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk
9. Feminist Cyberpunk
10. Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy
11. Retrofitting Frankenstein
12. Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition
Afterword: The World Gibson Made, Sherryl Vint Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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