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Hard Reading : Learning from Science Fiction
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Shippey, Tom

The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a “high-informationâ€_x009d_ genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, “the right wordâ€_x009d_, preferring le mot imprévisible, “the unp…

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9781781382615
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Series Title
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
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800 SHI h