Science-fiction Studies, Volume 9SFS Publications., 1982 - Electronic journals |
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Page 93
... literature and SF film : " Science fiction supports logic and order , SF film illogic and chaos . Its roots lie not in the visionary literature of the Nineteenth Century , to which science fiction owes most of its origins , but in older ...
... literature and SF film : " Science fiction supports logic and order , SF film illogic and chaos . Its roots lie not in the visionary literature of the Nineteenth Century , to which science fiction owes most of its origins , but in older ...
Page 296
... Literature . " " The essential function of literature , " he argues , " is to render experience cognitively more true and affectively and conatively more appropriate . " Literature clarifies understanding by offering fresh views of ...
... Literature . " " The essential function of literature , " he argues , " is to render experience cognitively more true and affectively and conatively more appropriate . " Literature clarifies understanding by offering fresh views of ...
Page 297
... literature of escape , " is the most suspect . Stapledon regards escapist literature as a fundamentally protective device for keeping urgent ethical or social issues at bay and " so employed as to make the fictitious world more ...
... literature of escape , " is the most suspect . Stapledon regards escapist literature as a fundamentally protective device for keeping urgent ethical or social issues at bay and " so employed as to make the fictitious world more ...
Contents
SF in Mass Culture | 38 |
George Slusser Heinleins Perpetual Motion Fur Farm | 51 |
John Dean The Uses of Wilderness in American | 68 |
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