商品簡介
Monk, a former professor of English at Dalhousie U. in Nova Scotia, examines instances of aliens (often not studied seriously) in short stories, novellas, and novelettes and what they convey about human existence. Viewing the alien as an archetype, she focuses on hard science fiction from 1900 to the present that was published in magazines, anthologies, and single-author collections. She provides an overview of the concept of the Other in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and describes conceptions of the alien in pre-postmodernist and postmodernist criticism and theory, creation of the alien and its context, and how it is used as a fictional character alongside human characters. The book is aimed at academics, students, and general readers. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Patricia Monk taught in the English Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax , Nova Scotia, where she specialized in Canadian literature and science fiction, before retiring in 2003. She is the author of three books: Mud and Magic Shows: Robertson Davies's Fifth Business (1992), The Gilded Beaver: An Introduction to the Life and Work of James De Mille (1991), and The Smaller Infinity: Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies (1982).
