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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
Aug 26, 2013 · The essay is a vital examination of and intervention into the ways in which we construct the history of science fiction; Professor Rieder's recent book, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (Wesleyan, 2008) is what you might call a worked example for the method advocated here.
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.
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...
In his groundbreaking 1984 essay, "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre," Rick Altman could accurately state that "genre theory has up to now aimed almost exclusively at theelaboration of a synchroniemodel approximating the syntactic operation of a specific genre" (12).
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.
