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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
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 ...
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...
Rieder demonstrates that science fiction "exposes" the contradictions of the ideological fantasies that support and sustain the colonial ideology of progress. Sometimes this "exposure" is conscious and deliberate on the part of an author;
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Apr 17, 2012 · John Rieder explores the different functions of genre and how they relate to SF, starting from Darko Suvin’s famous (and probably to date most used definition) of science fiction as a literature of “estrangement and cognition” (3) he ends up closer to Damon Knight’s dictum than one would expect.
