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Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Research Seminar -- Clayton

Published: 3 September 2008

Tales of Resonance and wonder: Locating Science Fiction

Andrew Milner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre. His published work includes John Milton and the English Revolution, Postmodern Conditions, Cultural Materialism, and Class. His Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction will be published by Peter Lang in 2009.

Abstract: Williams’s 1978 essay Utopia and Science Fiction is one of the classic theoretical statements on science fiction within utopian studies. It stresses the close kinship between the two genres but it nonetheless insists on their conceptual separateness. For Williams, these are different but cognate genres. This paper uses the categories of Williams’s cultural materialism - especially “selective tradition”, “structure of feeling” and “emergent, residual and dominant” and of post-Williamsite “new historicism” to interrogate understandings of the relationship between utopia and science fiction.

The seminar will be followed by drinks and nibbles.

All welcome.

Time: 3 pm to 5 pm
Date: Wednesday 3 September
Venue: SG02, Manton Rooms, Menzies Building (Building 11), Clayton campus