Publication Date
2019
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
First Advisor
Gorman, David J.
Degree Name
Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
Legacy Department
Department of English
Abstract
This dissertation examines the novels of American New Wave Science Fiction authors Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin as well as the novels of American Hard Renaissance Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. This examination places the rhetoric of these three authors into the larger discourse in Science Fiction that metaphorically visualizes the physics of space-time, historiography, periodization, and narrative form. By crafting nonteleological arguments against hard determinism, Dick and Le Guin effect Robinson’s ahistorical perspectives celebrating human agency
Recommended Citation
Donaldson, Joseph, "History in American New Wave and Hard Renaissance Science Fiction" (2019). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 6980.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-thesesdissertations/6980
Extent
242 pages
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University
Rights Statement
In Copyright
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Media Type
Text
