Science-fiction Studies, Volume 19SFS Publications., 1992 - Electronic journals |
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Page 119
He is foremost a rhetorical writer , and intensely so , and it may not be true that the nature of his fiction follows ... It is , indeed , the only genre whose constitutive is a " break ” in the natural order or a clash of two rival ...
He is foremost a rhetorical writer , and intensely so , and it may not be true that the nature of his fiction follows ... It is , indeed , the only genre whose constitutive is a " break ” in the natural order or a clash of two rival ...
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When it comes to the utopian element , no ambivalence is allowed : the second perspective is identified with the " unpatterned ” state of nature , with the refusal of modernity's “ materialistic ” bondages , and is absolutely ...
When it comes to the utopian element , no ambivalence is allowed : the second perspective is identified with the " unpatterned ” state of nature , with the refusal of modernity's “ materialistic ” bondages , and is absolutely ...
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Reverids regard the Mass not just as untamed Nature but as untamable , as the wild gone wild , as death itself , reducing all life forms to a dull white mold , “ wrinkled as the surface of the brain ” ( $ 12 : 197 ) .
Reverids regard the Mass not just as untamed Nature but as untamable , as the wild gone wild , as death itself , reducing all life forms to a dull white mold , “ wrinkled as the surface of the brain ” ( $ 12 : 197 ) .
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Daniel Fischlin Veronica Hollinger Andrew Taylor The Charisma | 1 |
David Ketterer Esther Rochon | 17 |
Peter Fitting Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm | 32 |
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