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The history of science fiction really begins with the Renaissance, or more specifically with the exploration of the New World and the coinci-dent spread of humanist learning through Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
- Paul Kincaid
- 2011
Jan 25, 2022 · The chapter introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘biodiscourse,’ and ‘bioimagination’ to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology; it juxtaposes artistic...
Science fiction (SIGH-innss FICK-shun) is a type of literature that deals with inventive technologies, futurism, space travel and exploration, and other science-based components.
This document explores the relationships between science fiction and mythology, utilizing the theories of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung in particular. Conclusions are then drawn that argue that science fiction performs the same functions as mythology in the modern world.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Techne is empirical in the sense that science fiction refers to the experience of the existence of an empirically based world, and the survey of science fiction readers finds clear and practical categories that separate science fiction from fantasy literature.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Dive deep into Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Oct 2, 2014 · For the first two decades of its existence, most scholarly work on Science Fiction tended to take three forms: theoretical efforts at definition that established the historical compass of the genre and elicited a canon of major works, formalist studies that traced important iconic or ideational features of the field, and critical investigations ...
