Science-fiction Studies, Volume 26, Part 2SFS Publications., 1999 - Science fiction |
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... function of transforming our own present into the determinate past of something yet to come " ( 152 ) . As a result , Jameson argues , sf more properly functions as a marker of our present imaginative limitations than as any kind of ...
... function of transforming our own present into the determinate past of something yet to come " ( 152 ) . As a result , Jameson argues , sf more properly functions as a marker of our present imaginative limitations than as any kind of ...
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... functions and effects ) ; the second situates Moylan's four selected novels within these contexts , reading them as paradigmatic instances of the twentieth - century critical utopia : " Critical utopias can be read as metaphorical ...
... functions and effects ) ; the second situates Moylan's four selected novels within these contexts , reading them as paradigmatic instances of the twentieth - century critical utopia : " Critical utopias can be read as metaphorical ...
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... functions ( allegorically ) as a strategy of cognitive estrangement in some influential constructions of " the postmodern ... function of sf at the end of the twentieth century . Slipstream fiction ( see the reference to Sterling's ...
... functions ( allegorically ) as a strategy of cognitive estrangement in some influential constructions of " the postmodern ... function of sf at the end of the twentieth century . Slipstream fiction ( see the reference to Sterling's ...
Contents
Gary Westfahl The Popular Tradition of Science Fiction | 187 |
Hassler The Academic Pioneers of Science Fiction | 213 |
OTHER ARTICLES | 284 |
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