Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... genres of which Verne's work is representative : social utopia , science fiction , and fantastic romance -- genres ... genre as such , Alice's doubt is an occupational hazard . Generic names must mean something . The problem SF poses ...
... genres of which Verne's work is representative : social utopia , science fiction , and fantastic romance -- genres ... genre as such , Alice's doubt is an occupational hazard . Generic names must mean something . The problem SF poses ...
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... genre . A rary genre is a collective system of expectations in the readers ' minds , stem- ming from their past experience with a certain type of writing , so that even its violations -- the innovations by which every genre evolves ...
... genre . A rary genre is a collective system of expectations in the readers ' minds , stem- ming from their past experience with a certain type of writing , so that even its violations -- the innovations by which every genre evolves ...
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communicated " ( Hirsch 101 ) . Thus , genres are strictly culture - bound , historical and not metaphysical , they are ... genre , and in particular to SF B. This may all be very interesting , but don't you think that we live in a ...
communicated " ( Hirsch 101 ) . Thus , genres are strictly culture - bound , historical and not metaphysical , they are ... genre , and in particular to SF B. This may all be very interesting , but don't you think that we live in a ...
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