Aliens
How and when does there come to be an qanAsthropology of the alien?a This set of essays, written for the eighth J. Lloyd Eaton ConferAsence on Fantasy and Science Fiction, is conAscerned with the significance of that question. q[Anthropology] is the science that must desigAsnate the alien if it is to redefine a place for itself in the universe, a according to the Introduction. The idea of the alien is not new. In the ReAsnaissance, Montaigneas purpose in describing an alien encounter was excorporation--manAskind was the qsavagea because the artificial devices of nature controlled him. ShakeAsspeareas version of the alien encounter was inAscorporation; his character of Caliban is brought to the artificial, political world of man and incorAsporated into the body politic qThe essays in this volume . . . show, in their general orientation, that the tribe of Shakespeare still, in literary studies at least, outnumbers that of Montaigne.a These essays show the interrelation of the excorporating posAssibilities to the internal soundings of the alien encounter within the human mind and form. This book is divided into three parts: qSearchings: The Quest for the Aliena includes qThe Aliens in Our Mind, a by Larry Niven; qEffing the Ineffable, a by Gregory Benford; qBorder Patrols, a by Michael Beehler; qAlien Aliens, a by Pascal Ducommun; and qMetamorphoses of the Dragon, a by George E. Slusser. qSightings: The Aliens among Usa includes qDiscriminating among Friends, a by John Huntington; qSex, Superman, Sociobiology, a by Joseph D. Miller; qCowboys and Telepaths, a by Eric S. Rabkin; qRobots, a by Noel Perrin; qAliens in the Supermarket, a by George R. Guffey; and qAliens 'Ra U.S., a by Zoe Sofia. qSoundings: Man as the Aliena includes qH. G. Wellsa Familiar Aliens, a by John R. Reed; qInspiration and Possession, a by Clayton Koelb; qCybernauts in Cyberspace, a by David Porush; qThe Human Alien, a by Leighton Brett Cooke; qFrom Astarte to Barbie, a by Frank McConnell; and qAn Indication of Monsters;a by Colin Greenland.This book is divided into three parts: aquot;Searchings: The Quest for the Aliena includes aquot;The Aliens in Our Mind, a by Larry Niven; aquot;Effing the Ineffable, a by Gregory Benford; aquot;Border Patrols, a by Michael Beehler; aquot;Alien Aliens, a by ...
| Title | : | Aliens |
| Author | : | George Edgar Slusser |
| Publisher | : | SIU Press - 1987 |
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