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  • Science Fiction
    Patrick Parrinder
    This book, first published in 1980, analyses science fiction as a mode of literature, examines the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. ...
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    64,06 €

  • Science Fiction
    Patrick Parrinder
    This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction writing, and assess the history and significance of a field in which...
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    63,76 €

  • H.G. Wells
    Patrick Parrinder
    Writings include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man. Volume covers the period 1895-1940. Extras: Appendices list additional critical articles and a full chronology of Wells’ published books. ...
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    87,57 €

  • The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
    Patrick Parrinder
    H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a ’seismograph of his age’. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells’s reception, ...
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    65,75 €

  • Nation and Novel
    Patrick Parrinder
    Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel. ...
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    66,86 €

  • James Joyce
    Patrick Parrinder
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    77,62 €

  • Science Fiction
    Patrick Parrinder
    What do we mean by Science Fiction? What does it do, and why do so many people read it? What are its characteristic values, attitudes and procedures? Is it a creative force in our society, or merely a pathological symptom? How much of it is worth the attention of the ordinary ’non-scientific’ or ’non-addicted’ reader? ...
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    98,92 €