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The five propositions are: sf is historical and mutable; sf has no essence, no single unifying characteristic, and no point of origin; sf is not a set of texts, but rather a way of using texts and of drawing relationships among them; sf’s identity is a differentially articulated position in an historical and mutable field of genres;
I would say that the more inclusive and broadly-based bibliographies of Bleiler and Clareson are to be preferred.Examples of the kind of delineation of the emergence of the genre advocated here include Rieder's in chapter 2 of Colonialism and the Emergence of Science 2 and 3 of Luckhurst's Science Fiction.
- John Rieder
The term science fiction became widely used in the pulps in the 1930s, and it is strongly associated with the dominant form taken by it in the 1940s and 1950s pulp magazines, a period that continues to be called science fiction's Golden Age. MLA Citation of this article: Rieder, John.
I would say that the more inclusive and broadly-based bibliographies of Bleiler and Clareson are to be preferred.Examples of the kind of delineation of the emergence of the genre advocated here include Rieder's treatment of the lost-race motif in chapter 2 of Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, and chapters 2 and 3 of Luckhurst's ...
John Rieder provides a detailed academic analysis of science fiction as a popular genre from the postmodern perspective (Rieder, 2010), describing Wittgenstein's 'family resemblances', and...
Mar 7, 2017 · A fresh approach to the history and shape of science fiction. In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory.
Jul 13, 2017 · Rieder’s thesis in this innovative approach to the history of what we understand to be science fiction is that ‘it is an organic genre of the mass cultural genre system’ (9).
