Worlds of wonder : readings in Canadian science fiction and fantasy literature /
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| Imprint: | Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2004. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 202 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 26 Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 26. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12397704 |
Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; """"Another Dimension of Space"": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin""; ""The Canadian Apocalypse""; ""Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma""; ""Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre""; ""More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner""
- ""Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone""""""Half In and Half Out of Things"": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch""; ""Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb""; ""Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious?""; ""A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction""; ""Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece""; ""Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James""
- ""Le Nord �lectrique, Travel Book""""A Distant Mirror: Ideology and Identity in Québec's Science Fiction by Women""; """"The World Is Its Own Place"": Denys Chabot's Infernal Utopia""; ""The Ordinary and the Fabulous: Canadian Fantasy Literature for Children""