Seminar One: Pleasures of the Imagination in Science Fiction
This seminar will focus on the imaginative pleasures of science fiction rather than on its didactic concerns or its uses as grist for the cultural-studies mills. What in fact are the imaginative pleasures of science fiction (if any)? How are they manifested and to what ends? Please send abstracts of papers that address these and related questions by concentrating on a single noteworthy work of science fiction to Paul K. Alkon, Department of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354. (alkon@usc.edu)
Best,
Chris
