Science-fiction Studies, Issues 29-31SFS Publications., 1983 - Science fiction |
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Page 41
... alien's perceptions , and to force us to see these things from a new perspective . Ursula Le Guin uses this ... alien planet , what represents for the ' terran reader ' the utmost strangeness must be perfectly trivial and banal for the ...
... alien's perceptions , and to force us to see these things from a new perspective . Ursula Le Guin uses this ... alien planet , what represents for the ' terran reader ' the utmost strangeness must be perfectly trivial and banal for the ...
Page 306
... alien . ' The problem as she interprets it is really two - fold : ( 1 ) establishing the " otherness " of the language , so as to erect convincing barriers to communication between the alien and the earthling and to do this even though ...
... alien . ' The problem as she interprets it is really two - fold : ( 1 ) establishing the " otherness " of the language , so as to erect convincing barriers to communication between the alien and the earthling and to do this even though ...
Page 311
... alien in the same way people we " know " are alien : not so much in using different rules for putting meaning together ( interpreting their irony and indirection is not different from interpreting our own ) , but in performing insincere ...
... alien in the same way people we " know " are alien : not so much in using different rules for putting meaning together ( interpreting their irony and indirection is not different from interpreting our own ) , but in performing insincere ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 7 |
James Gunn The Gatekeepers | 13 |
Martin Bridgstock A Psychological Approach to Hard | 50 |
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