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Page 173
... living and intelligent being as a work that is fitted only to inspire religious emotion , and there is an impropriety , to say no worse , in placing it in any other light . ( 249-52 ) In contrast , Sir Walter Scott saw in Frankenstein a ...
... living and intelligent being as a work that is fitted only to inspire religious emotion , and there is an impropriety , to say no worse , in placing it in any other light . ( 249-52 ) In contrast , Sir Walter Scott saw in Frankenstein a ...
Page 179
In all this type of story the living interest lies in their non - fantastic elements and not in the invention itself . They are appeals for human sympathy quite as much as any " sympathetic " novel , and the fantastic element , the ...
In all this type of story the living interest lies in their non - fantastic elements and not in the invention itself . They are appeals for human sympathy quite as much as any " sympathetic " novel , and the fantastic element , the ...
Page 321
... living nature as a whole , linking ecology with human communication . Most human problems could be seen as pathologies of co - ordinating messages and contexts , albeit terrifically charged with emotion and need . 4 The significance of ...
... living nature as a whole , linking ecology with human communication . Most human problems could be seen as pathologies of co - ordinating messages and contexts , albeit terrifically charged with emotion and need . 4 The significance of ...
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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