Science-fiction Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2003 - Science fiction |
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... Readers have long been accustomed to - lulled or misled into - finding meaning in the verbal constructs of a text ... reading , and of the way a book feels in the hand , so that we recognize almost instinc- tively that " if books are ...
... Readers have long been accustomed to - lulled or misled into - finding meaning in the verbal constructs of a text ... reading , and of the way a book feels in the hand , so that we recognize almost instinc- tively that " if books are ...
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... reader's active participation . House of Leaves is pure text , or texts - as if instantiating all the tendencies of readers to move through texts with running commentaries of their own , with marginalia and footnotes , with asides and ...
... reader's active participation . House of Leaves is pure text , or texts - as if instantiating all the tendencies of readers to move through texts with running commentaries of their own , with marginalia and footnotes , with asides and ...
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... readers - and therefore requires to be studied - as a subgenre of consolatory fantasy with no greater imaginative authority than tales of goblins , ghosts , or gods . The pretensions to intellectual seriousness that sf's adherents once ...
... readers - and therefore requires to be studied - as a subgenre of consolatory fantasy with no greater imaginative authority than tales of goblins , ghosts , or gods . The pretensions to intellectual seriousness that sf's adherents once ...
Contents
Anthropology Science | 180 |
The Mummys | 217 |
Istvan CsicseryRonay Jr Science Fiction and Empire | 231 |
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