Science-fiction Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2003 - Science fiction |
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suggested that there is something about science fiction - considered less as a literary genre than as a mode of speculation and reflection — that lends itself to the work of social analysis . In other words , sf is not merely a ...
suggested that there is something about science fiction - considered less as a literary genre than as a mode of speculation and reflection — that lends itself to the work of social analysis . In other words , sf is not merely a ...
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In this light , the question of genre is riven by the same ideal / real split as any historical category , between , on the one hand , the crystallization of possibilities , the ideal form , the possible genre , with , on the other ...
In this light , the question of genre is riven by the same ideal / real split as any historical category , between , on the one hand , the crystallization of possibilities , the ideal form , the possible genre , with , on the other ...
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poverty exists simultaneously with the ideal genre's possibilities . For Freedman , none of these constraints seems to matter much . In Critical Theory and Science Fiction there is only the ideal genre of critical sf .
poverty exists simultaneously with the ideal genre's possibilities . For Freedman , none of these constraints seems to matter much . In Critical Theory and Science Fiction there is only the ideal genre of critical sf .
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