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Jul 26, 2018 · Literary and cultural historians describe science fiction (SF) as the premiere narrative form of modernity because authors working in this genre extrapolate from Enlightenment ideals and industrial practices to imagine how educated people using machines and other technologies might radically change the material world.
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Aug 3, 2017 · From a literary-critical perspective, Carl Freedman described science fiction as the most legitimate genre for academic study, placing it above all other forms of literature for its analytical potential (Freedman, 2000).
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
- 2017
Jul 23, 2014 · In this article we discuss countless examples of novels and stories influenced by new scientific ideas, and also some cases where literary creativity has coined some highly original scientific vocabulary. Keywords: science and literature, science outreach, science-technology-society (STS).
Nov 27, 2020 · This chapter pulls together theoretical and epistemological resources for thinking about science fiction (SF) as a site of contemporary engagement with technoscience. SF can be read as a method for tracing popular constructions of science’s stories about collective futures.
- Amy C. Chambers, Lisa Garforth
- 2020
Aug 3, 2017 · This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To capture a...
Aug 2, 2023 · This paper argues that the healthiest and most fruitful relation between science and literature is one in which literary critics sustain their work of critique, not to enter the internal workings of science but to contextualize science and set against scientific activity aesthetic and ethical criteria.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Science fiction has been described as “a crucial and popular mode, even the mainstream mode, of thinking about life in a modern technoscientific world” (Weiner et al., 2018, p. 7) and, in popular forms, can provide remarkable insights into cultural perspectives and assumptions (Menadue, 2019b).