Lois McMaster Bujold : essays on a modern master of science fiction and fantasy / edited by Janet Brennan Croft.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
Description
viii, 207 pages ; 23 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Editor
Croft, Janet Brennan [Browse]
Series
  • Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 37. [More in this series]
  • Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ; 37
Summary note
"Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. This collection of fresh essays aims to present a variety of critical perspectives addressing many aspects of her writing. Attention is given to both her Miles Vorkosigan science fiction series and her Chalion and Sharing Knife fantasy series"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: forward momentum / Janet Brennan Croft
  • Love and death in the Vorkosiverse: an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold / Sandra J. Lindow
  • From both sides now: Bujold and the fan fiction phenomenon / Amy H. Sturgis
  • Legitimacy and legibility: rereading civil discourse through feminist figurations in Cordelia's honor / Regina Yung Lee
  • The influence of family and moral development in Bujold's Vorkosigan series / Sandra J. Lindow
  • The soldier and the cipher: Miles, Mark, and the naming plots of Bujold's Vorkosiverse / Janet Brennan Croft
  • The emperor's shoe: power, honor, and the other in the Vorkosigan saga / Andrew Hallam
  • Chaos and quest: Miles Vorkosigan's disability narrative / Virginia Bemis
  • Broken brothers in arms: acting the man in The warrior's apprentice / Linda Wight
  • Difference and ability: conceptualizing bodily variation in the Vorkosigan series / Shannan Palma
  • The decay of the cyborg body in Bujold's Memory / Sylvia Kelso
  • From Iberian to Ibran and Catholic to Quintarian: Bujold's alternate history of the Spanish reconquest in the Chalion series / David D. Oberhelman
  • (Absent) gods and sharing knives: the purposes of Lois McMaster Bujold's fantastic (ir)religions / John Lennard.
ISBN
  • 9780786468331 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 0786468335 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012049417
OCLC
808416753
Other standard number
40021930791
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