Science-fiction Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1SFS Publications, 2002 - Science fiction |
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postmodernist fiction " ( 228 ) . Postmodern texts absorb sf materials , but those materials come from " texts that have already been ' postmodernized ' to some degree through contact with mainstream postmodernist poetics " ( 228-29 ) ...
postmodernist fiction " ( 228 ) . Postmodern texts absorb sf materials , but those materials come from " texts that have already been ' postmodernized ' to some degree through contact with mainstream postmodernist poetics " ( 228-29 ) ...
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... texts as products of print technology . The clearest similarity between the works of Lem and Pynchon , however , lies in their representation of the effects of other media technologies . In Lem's work the delirious and disorienting ...
... texts as products of print technology . The clearest similarity between the works of Lem and Pynchon , however , lies in their representation of the effects of other media technologies . In Lem's work the delirious and disorienting ...
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... textual ambiguity of dystopian narrative for the absolutism of an anti - utopian stance " ( 156 ) . Of course , Moylan is aware that this stark contrast is overstated , since individual texts generally " negotiate a more strategically ...
... textual ambiguity of dystopian narrative for the absolutism of an anti - utopian stance " ( 156 ) . Of course , Moylan is aware that this stark contrast is overstated , since individual texts generally " negotiate a more strategically ...
Contents
The Dickian Legacy Postmo | 15 |
Anthony Enns Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lems Solaris | 34 |
Istvan CsicseryRonay Jr On the Grotesque in Science Fiction | 71 |
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