Slipstream Then, Slipstream Now: The Curious Connections between William Douglas O'Connor's "The Brazen Android" and Michael Cunningham's "Specimen Days."
Slipstream is a transitional literature that arises either from a shift from one historical narrative paradigm to another or from a move beyond a given set of narrative protocols when they come to seem inadequate to the writer's purpose. Slipstream may invoke narrative protocols associated with sf,...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 67 - 92 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Mar2011
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