Science-fiction Studies, Issue 14SFS Publications., 1978 - Science fiction |
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Page 19
... literature of " sword and sorcery , " is usually marketed as SF , or as " science fantasy , " or simply as " fantasy , " but it should be regarded as merely a part - and not a very repre- sentative part of these genres . As space is too ...
... literature of " sword and sorcery , " is usually marketed as SF , or as " science fantasy , " or simply as " fantasy , " but it should be regarded as merely a part - and not a very repre- sentative part of these genres . As space is too ...
Page 36
... literature , " and it often goes far afield from Fantasy proper , from SF to pornography to the detective story . Because of the constant reversals in the narrative frames of reference , the Alice - books of Lewis Carroll constitute an ...
... literature , " and it often goes far afield from Fantasy proper , from SF to pornography to the detective story . Because of the constant reversals in the narrative frames of reference , the Alice - books of Lewis Carroll constitute an ...
Page 37
... literature of the impossible . " By this expression he means that the fictional worlds protrayed by the Fantasist take as their point of departure the deliberate violation of norms and facts we re- gard as essential to our conventional ...
... literature of the impossible . " By this expression he means that the fictional worlds protrayed by the Fantasist take as their point of departure the deliberate violation of norms and facts we re- gard as essential to our conventional ...
Contents
Fredericks Problems of Fantasy | 33 |
Darko Suvin On What Is and Is Not an SF Narration With | 45 |
Marc Angenot Science Fiction in France before Verne | 58 |
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