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of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed. [Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1970]) as a study of a kind of cultural fiction he calls "paradigms," imaginative orderings of the uni- verse which shape even science, that bastion of supposedly objective nonfiction.
In this essay I aim to help clarify and. strengthen the impact of an historical genre theory on sf studies. II start from the problem of definition because, although constructing generic. definitions is a scholarly necessity, an historical approach to genre seems to undermine any fixed definition.
We can define science fiction as that branch of literature that deals with the human response to changes in the level of science and technology - it being understood that the changes involved would be rational ones in keeping with what was known about science, technology and people.
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores human responses to changes in science and technology.
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 ...
9 Οκτ 2020 · We will discuss science fiction genre theory and how it contrasts with popular definitions derived from survey responses. For clarity, we will distinguish between sources of definition to avoid potential confusion.
26 Ιουλ 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.
