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Oct 9, 2020 · We will discuss science fiction genre theory and how it contrasts with popular definitions derived from survey responses. For clarity, we will distinguish between sources of definition to avoid potential confusion.
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Vernay explores the cognitive and literary intersections through which the cognitive paradigm in Literary Studies is helping to redefine the boundaries between literary and scientific knowledge, renew literary criticism and reconsider one of the defining traits of fiction.
Jan 25, 2022 · PDF | This Chapter defines ‘biofictions’ and proposes a new interdisciplinary area of research that correlates processes of genetics and literature.
Collection: Very Short Introductions. Science fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has variously been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy (Hugo Gernsback), ‘realistic speculation about future events’ (Robert Heinlein), and a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment (Darko ...
Oct 2, 2014 · Part I, “Science Fiction as Genre,” considers the internal history of SF literature, examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities, its animating social and commercial institutions, and its relationship to other fantastic genres.
Researchers employ science fiction and fantasy in public engagement, advocacy, and education as significant sources of insights to identify public interests, inspire public policy, and influence future science.
John Rieder provides a detailed academic analysis of science fiction as a popular genre from the postmodern perspective (Rieder, 2010), describing Wittgenstein’s ‘family resemblances’, and Lofti Zadeh’s notion of the ‘fuzzy set’ (uncited) as existing ways of describing genre (195).
