Carol McGuirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 6094938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol McGuirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | McGuirk |
| SIGNATURE | MCGUIRK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | SFS |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945
Reviewed by: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age by Valerie Estelle Frankel Carol McGuirk Jewish Folklore and Faith, the Popular Fantastic, and the SF Comics and Pulps. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age. Lexington, 2021. 230 pp. $100 hc, $45 ebk. Valerie Frankel, author of this work and general editor of the series it launches (covering …
J.G. Ballard and American Science Fiction
Offering something of a group portrait, this study focuses on Ballard's first decade as a published writer (1956-1966), seen in the context of US science fiction—its stories, writers, communal obsessions (including NASA's Mercury Program), and above all its shared writing practices. During the early Cold War years, science fiction regularly recast the genre's own earlier moments, a practice that tied even the pointed social critique of noir sf in…
A Long View of Genre History
139 A LONG VIEW OF GENRE HISTORY REVIEW-ESSAY Carol McGuirk A Long View of Genre History Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link, eds. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge UP, 2019. 801 pp. $175.00 hc. “The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science-fiction writers.”—Sheri S. Tepper, “Speaking for the Universe” The 46 chapters of The Cambridge History of Science Fiction track the genre’s historical evolution o…
Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, and American Science Fiction
Asimov, Boucher, Heinlein, and Detective Fiction; or, Is Jubal Harshaw's Role Model Nero Wolfe
God in a Yellow Bathrobe
A Conjectural Study
Sherryl Vint to Become Notes and Correspondence Editor
SF at FAU
Scotland Conquers the Science-Fictioneers
Required Reading
For-a-While”
PKD Redux
Staging Dahlgren
The Animal Downdeep
Cordwainer Smith’s dual focus on animal welfare and human cruelty speaks to many concerns of animal studies today. He portrays, some 15,000 years after his own mid-twentieth century, the final collapse of the animal/human dyad. The “underpeople,” workers derived from Earth animals, conspire to become recognized as part of the body politic, a concept connected in Smith with the idea of residence in a polis or city. “The Dead Lady of Clown Town” (1…
Lem’s Stalin Opera
Science Fiction’s Renegade Becomings
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari suggested during the 1980s that science fiction’s plots of “becoming”—becoming-animal, -alien, -machine, -woman, -child, etc.—are “antimemories” that reassess traditional hierarchies, challenging any presumption of human superiority or singularity. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of “becomings,” as well as Nietzsche’s and Derrida’s ideas on cognition’s relationship to language, I consider fiction by Stanley G. …
Schooling the Monster
The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith
Defining historical, biographical, and literary contexts for Smith’s writings, I analyze his oblique, elliptical style and discuss his approach to the portrayal of heroes. Smith’s consistent focus, even in such non-sf as Ria (1947), Carola (1948), and Atomsk (1949), is on isolated protagonists caught in a maelstrom of contrary impulses; Martel in “Scanners Live in Vain” is torn between body and spirit, domesticity and duty, indoctrination and ind…
Angela’s Ashes
NoWhere Man
WhiIe topographical and topical (i. e. , extrapolative) considerations remain essential to analysis of “hard” and “soft” sf, the primacy of topos in critical discourse has resulted in the neglect or misreading of such visionary, post-utopian writers as Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith. whose work (emphasizing symbolic displacement, not topographical orientation) goes against the grain of sf’s utopian heritage. All good fictio…
Origins of Futuristic Fiction
Just Looking
Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era
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Just Looking
Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era
Origins of Futuristic Fiction
NoWhere Man
WhiIe topographical and topical (i. e. , extrapolative) considerations remain essential to analysis of “hard” and “soft” sf, the primacy of topos in critical discourse has resulted in the neglect or misreading of such visionary, post-utopian writers as Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith. whose work (emphasizing symbolic displacement, not topographical orientation) goes against the grain of sf’s utopian heritage. All good fictio…
Angela’s Ashes
The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith
Defining historical, biographical, and literary contexts for Smith’s writings, I analyze his oblique, elliptical style and discuss his approach to the portrayal of heroes. Smith’s consistent focus, even in such non-sf as Ria (1947), Carola (1948), and Atomsk (1949), is on isolated protagonists caught in a maelstrom of contrary impulses; Martel in “Scanners Live in Vain” is torn between body and spirit, domesticity and duty, indoctrination and ind…
Schooling the Monster
Science Fiction’s Renegade Becomings
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari suggested during the 1980s that science fiction’s plots of “becoming”—becoming-animal, -alien, -machine, -woman, -child, etc.—are “antimemories” that reassess traditional hierarchies, challenging any presumption of human superiority or singularity. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of “becomings,” as well as Nietzsche’s and Derrida’s ideas on cognition’s relationship to language, I consider fiction by Stanley G. …
Lem’s Stalin Opera
Staging Dahlgren
The Animal Downdeep
Cordwainer Smith’s dual focus on animal welfare and human cruelty speaks to many concerns of animal studies today. He portrays, some 15,000 years after his own mid-twentieth century, the final collapse of the animal/human dyad. The “underpeople,” workers derived from Earth animals, conspire to become recognized as part of the body politic, a concept connected in Smith with the idea of residence in a polis or city. “The Dead Lady of Clown Town” (1…
Required Reading
For-a-While”
PKD Redux
Sherryl Vint to Become Notes and Correspondence Editor
SF at FAU
Scotland Conquers the Science-Fictioneers
A Conjectural Study
God in a Yellow Bathrobe
Asimov, Boucher, Heinlein, and Detective Fiction; or, Is Jubal Harshaw's Role Model Nero Wolfe
Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, and American Science Fiction
A Long View of Genre History
139 A LONG VIEW OF GENRE HISTORY REVIEW-ESSAY Carol McGuirk A Long View of Genre History Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link, eds. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge UP, 2019. 801 pp. $175.00 hc. “The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science-fiction writers.”—Sheri S. Tepper, “Speaking for the Universe” The 46 chapters of The Cambridge History of Science Fiction track the genre’s historical evolution o…
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945
Reviewed by: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age by Valerie Estelle Frankel Carol McGuirk Jewish Folklore and Faith, the Popular Fantastic, and the SF Comics and Pulps. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age. Lexington, 2021. 230 pp. $100 hc, $45 ebk. Valerie Frankel, author of this work and general editor of the series it launches (covering …
J.G. Ballard and American Science Fiction
Offering something of a group portrait, this study focuses on Ballard's first decade as a published writer (1956-1966), seen in the context of US science fiction—its stories, writers, communal obsessions (including NASA's Mercury Program), and above all its shared writing practices. During the early Cold War years, science fiction regularly recast the genre's own earlier moments, a practice that tied even the pointed social critique of noir sf in…
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