Teaching fantastic literature
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The introductory-level course Fantastic Literature integrates both science fiction and fantasy, allowing both to be studied in a larger historical and generic context. It offers a good way of helping students understand why cultures tell stories and why these stories often depart from reality. It includes the study of mythic texts, other primary forms of folk narrative that can be classified as myth such as legend, folktale and ballad, genres that integrate or imitate oral narrative forms such as the literary fairy tale, literary ballads and medieval romance. It also delves on 19th and 20th century writings.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1996
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Friedrich Kittler's Aufschreibsystem
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Friedrich Kittler's works are explored by tracing the trajectory of his thought over his thirty-year career and locating his work in a contemporary theoretical context, before explaining ways in which it may be relevant to the field of science fiction studies. A Kittlerian approach can be applied to sf in different ways and some interesting affinities between Kittler's work and recent 'historical' modes of sf, particularly Neal Stephenson's post-steampunk Barooque Cycle novels are mapped out.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2006
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Aboriginality in science fiction
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Science fiction in colonial societies such as Australia can function as what Mary Louise Pratt calls an 'art of the contact zone'. Australian science fiction falls into three periods with regards to its treatment of aboriginal characters and traditions.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2005
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