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1、SCIENCEFICTIONACOLLECTIONOFCRITICALESSAYSEditedbyMarkRoseScanned&ProofedByMadMaxAU****ContentsIntroductionbyMarkRose1.BackgroundsStartingPointsbyKingsleyAmisScienceFictionandLiteraturebyRobertConquestTheRootsofScienceFictionbyRobertScholes2.TheoryOnthePoeticsoftheScienceFictionGenrebyDark
2、oSuvinTheTime‐TravelStoryandRelatedMattersofSFStructuringbyStanislawLemGenreCriticism:ScienceFictionandtheFantasticbyEricS.Rabkin3.ApproachesOnScienceFictionbyC.S.LewisTheImaginationofDisasterbySusanSontagHowtoPlayUtopia:SomeBriefNotesontheDistinctivenessofUtopianFictionbyMichaelHolquistT
3、heApocalypticImagination,ScienceFiction,andAmericanLiteraturebyDavidKettererScienceFictionandtheFuturebyJohnHuntingtonNotesontheEditorandContributorsSelectedBibliography****IntroductionbyMarkRoseThelastdecadeorsohasseenashiftinliterarytasteawayfromthemeticulouspsychologicalrealismof,say,G
4、oodbyeColumbustothebrilliantextravagancesofPortnoy’sComplaint.ThenovelsofBarth,Heller,Pynchon,andVonnegutaresymptomaticofthisshift,asisthepopularityofTolkien’sepicfantasy,TheLordoftheRings.EvensoconservativeagroupasRenaissancescholarshasfelttheeffectsoftheshiftintasteastheintensecriticali
5、nterestinSpenser’sFaerieQueeneandShakespeare’slateromances,TheWinter’sTaleandTheTempest,bearswitness.Mostpeoplehaveahealthyloveofwonderandmelodrama,butformanyyearstheacceptedcanonsoftaste,committedtorathernarrowidealsofrealismandanArnoldianconceptionof“highseriousness,”rejectedthebasicstu
6、ffofromanceaschildish.Now,however,ithasbecomepossibleforseriouscriticstoreexamineareasofliteraturethatformerlywereignored,andsciencefiction,whichisperhapsthecharacteristicromanceformofthescientificage,hasbeen“discovered.”Wedonotexpectromancestoprovidesubtlepsychologicalportraitsorfullyren
7、deredimagesoftheworldasweknowit.Rather,weexpecttohearofmarvelsandadventuresinstrangeplacespopulatedbysuchpreternaturalcreaturesasgiantsanddragons.Theessentialaestheticeffectofromanceiswonder,andwehaveonlytoconsiderthetitlesofsomeofthescience‐fictionmagazinessuchasAm