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Alpha geek: Neal Stephenson, the emerging third culture, and the significance of science fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Alpha geek: Neal Stephenson, the emerging third culture, and the significance of science fiction./
Author:	Hellstrom, Christopher L.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	290 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-12A(E).
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3663860
ISBN:	9781339051895

Alpha geek: Neal Stephenson, the emerging third culture, and the significance of science fiction.
Hellstrom, Christopher L.

Alpha geek: Neal Stephenson, the emerging third culture, and the significance of science fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 290 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.A.)--St. John's University (New York), 2015.

Science fiction is a unique genre that can help bridge the divide of what C.P. Snow calls the "two cultures" of the sciences and the humanities. Neal Stephenson, the subject of this dissertation, is a Hugo and Locus award-winning author who has received both critical and public attention over the last two decades.

ISBN: 9781339051895Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.

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520 $a There has been insightful scholarship about Neal Stephenson, from the first peer reviewed article David Pourush's "Hacking the Brainstem: Postmodern Metaphysics and Stephenson's Snow Crash" (1994) to the first collection on Stephenson Tomorrow through the Past: Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization edited by Jon Lewis. However, it is my contention that like Philip K. Dick before him Neal Stephenson will gain more critical attention in the coming years. This project is the first multiple chapter examination of Stephenson's work by a single author.
520 $a Using critical insights from SF scholars that have written about Neal Stephenson, including N. Katherine Hayles, Jay Clayton, Sherryl Vint, Walter Benn Michaels, Neil Easterbrook and others, I explore a variety of topics referencing Stephenson's work. These include: literary maximalism, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, the didactic role of the novel, fandom and the SF Megatext, pedagogy and technology, cybernetics and posthumanism. Each of the five chapters position Stephenson as a maximalist writer creating novels in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, and as an important bridge between the "two cultures" of the sciences and humanities.
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