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1 Φεβ 2024 · We show that this hypothesis can explain (1) why science fiction works are perceived as homogenous and different from works of fiction of other genres, (2) why science fiction emerged and became culturally successful rather late in literary history, and (3) why the preference for science fiction varies across time, across space, and across ...
9 Οκτ 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).
This book aims to rectify that deficiency by investigating how science fiction has made use of ideas from five different psychological schools: evolutionary psychology; psychoanalysis; behaviourism and social constructionism; existential-humanism; and cognitivism.
2 Οκτ 2014 · For the first two decades of its existence, most scholarly work on Science Fiction tended to take three forms: theoretical efforts at definition that established the historical compass of the genre and elicited a canon of major works, formalist studies that traced important iconic or ideational features of the field, and critical investigations ...
3 Αυγ 2017 · Science fiction is significant in studies of human culture as it is an ancient and enduring form of literature that has been part of what Brian Aldiss called our “cultural wallpaper” since the origins of recorded history (Aldiss & Wigmore, 1986, p. 14).
29 Φεβ 2020 · The varied functions of psychological discourses in science fiction are explored, whether to popularise and prophesy, to imagine utopia or dystopia, to estrange our everyday reality, to comment on science fiction itself, or to abet (or resist) the spread of psychological wisdom.
31 Ιαν 2020 · The readings explore the varied employment in science fiction of ideas from five key psychological schools – evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviourism, existential-humanism, and cognitivism – and conclude by examining psychology’s use of science fiction.
