Science-fiction Studies, Volume 25, Part 3SFS Publications., 1998 - Science fiction |
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Page 437
... transcendence " and that such tragic irony " makes the first three books in the DUNE series ... a mordant commentary on the story of the Hero with a Thousand Faces ... instead of a masturbatory power fantasy " ( 153-55 ) . Yet Spinrad ...
... transcendence " and that such tragic irony " makes the first three books in the DUNE series ... a mordant commentary on the story of the Hero with a Thousand Faces ... instead of a masturbatory power fantasy " ( 153-55 ) . Yet Spinrad ...
Page 438
... transcendence of transcendence - that Paul had rejected , only to relinquish that power finally when he attains the complete self - effacement which Paul cannot bear but which the hero must exhibit if the monomyth's spiritual dimension ...
... transcendence of transcendence - that Paul had rejected , only to relinquish that power finally when he attains the complete self - effacement which Paul cannot bear but which the hero must exhibit if the monomyth's spiritual dimension ...
Page 467
... transcendence of mortality , " is clearly portrayed by Virtual Light's hive - like Bridge . Gibson repeatedly shows the communal ontology in a state of " perpet- ual present , " a televisual digital age where history is reduced to empty ...
... transcendence of mortality , " is clearly portrayed by Virtual Light's hive - like Bridge . Gibson repeatedly shows the communal ontology in a state of " perpet- ual present , " a televisual digital age where history is reduced to empty ...
Contents
IN MEMORIAM | 401 |
ARTICLES | 411 |
Donald Palumbo The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank | 433 |
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