Science-fiction Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1SFS Publications, 1991 - Science fiction |
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Page 62
... metaphors of transcendence , of a rapture beyond words , no different from the fatal southward journey of Hardman and Kerans in The Drowned World , or the escape into the timeless forests of The Crystal World or the dunes of The Drought ...
... metaphors of transcendence , of a rapture beyond words , no different from the fatal southward journey of Hardman and Kerans in The Drowned World , or the escape into the timeless forests of The Crystal World or the dunes of The Drought ...
Page 67
... metaphors . In our Freudian epoch , we are trained to reduce social values to personal ones , and interpret personal values with tales from the nasty nursery of childhood . The bejewelled forests of The Crystal World are " obviously ...
... metaphors . In our Freudian epoch , we are trained to reduce social values to personal ones , and interpret personal values with tales from the nasty nursery of childhood . The bejewelled forests of The Crystal World are " obviously ...
Page 86
... metaphors . Frank Kermode suggests as much in an entirely different frame of reference . " In solitary confinement , " he observes , " some ... have tested the gaiety of language as a means of projecting their humanity on a hostile ...
... metaphors . Frank Kermode suggests as much in an entirely different frame of reference . " In solitary confinement , " he observes , " some ... have tested the gaiety of language as a means of projecting their humanity on a hostile ...
Contents
Can Science Fiction | 11 |
W Warren Wagar J G Ballard and the Transvaluation of Utopia | 53 |
Philmus The Two Faces of Philip K Dick | 91 |
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