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In order to determine it more pertinently and delimit it more precisely, it is necessary to educe and formulate, (1) pos- itively, its specific domain, and (2) negatively, its relationships with other literary genres and cultural determinants among which it develops.
9 paź 2020 · Science fiction has been described as “a crucial and popular mode, even the mainstream mode, of thinking about life in a modern technoscientific world” (Weiner et al., 2018, p. 7) and, in popular forms, can provide remarkable insights into cultural perspectives and assumptions (Menadue, 2019b).
16 sty 2021 · This article deploys Friend’s notion of genre in order to improve the influential characterization of science fiction proposed by Darko Suvin and to defend it from a criticism recently raised by Simon Evnine.
2 paź 2014 · Of course, science fiction is literature if we accept that word’s broadest definition, “a body of writings in prose or verse,” or even its second broadest definition, “imaginative or creative writing, esp. of recognized artistic value” (“Literature”), although some still may quibble about “ recognized artistic value.”
26 lip 2018 · Literary and cultural historians describe science fiction (SF) as the premiere narrative form of modernity because authors working in this genre extrapolate from Enlightenment ideals and industrial practices to imagine how educated people using machines and other technologies might radically change the material world.
26 lis 2023 · Through a review of the development history of the British and American definitions of science fiction and related controversies, we find that changes in science fiction's definition are often accompanied by the reorientation and reimagination of its position in society and culture.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that explores imaginative and futuristic concepts, often involving advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
