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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 115–136.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . Modern Plastics , 16 . November 1938 : 4 . Frankl Paul T. Form and Re-Form: A Practical Handbook of Modern Interiors . New York : Harper and Brothers , 1930 . Franklin H. Bruce . “America as Science Fiction: 1939 (L'Amérique comme Science-Fiction: 1939).” Science Fiction...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Brian Attebery Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy‐Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re‐visioning. Such re‐visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique...
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Genre (2018) 51 (2): 183–207.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Fred Botting Unrealism addresses the way unrealistic genres of writing like science fiction, horror, romance, and fantasy can display a capacity to reflect on and interrogate generic conventions. Unrealism describes a process that unsettles the literary hierarchies in which genre fiction...
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Genre (2019) 52 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2019
...David Sergeant This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction of the near future, New York 2140 (2017) and how its treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. By imbricating present and future, New York 2140 resembles not so much science fiction, the genre commonly associated...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 117–134.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy The introduction to this special issue proposes a three-stage periodization for the development of weird fiction, the unstable hybrid of horror, science fiction, and fantasy most often associated with H. P. Lovecraft: Old Weird (1880–1940), which is centered...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 199–211.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy In this wide-ranging interview, the New Weird novelist and critic China Miéville offers an account of weird fiction's liminal status as a countertradition that problematizes the critical divisions between science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In driving...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 171–197.
Published: 01 July 2014
... articulates a biopolitical poetics defying the conceptual oppositions between collective and individual, public and private, socialist and liberal. I contend that, with its combination of tropes from the genres of science fiction, utopia, and the western, The Place of Dead Roads functions as a pedagogy...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 393–418.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Shawn Malley Examining relationships between performance and archaeology in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007), this essay explores the show's dual representation of Mesopotamia as a theater of archaeological activity and geopolitical conflict. Employing archaeological...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2022
... technology. The protagonist is presented as an outsider by means of literary science fiction devices, only to be made more “normal” and recognizable as part of the school story, love story, and thriller. This refamiliarization gives WarGames a conservative potential, less evident but still present...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 383–387.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., uncompromising, his tantrums and wild performances
regarded with a mixture of fear, anger and awe. As Weil and Wolfe write, even
before he became involved in Star Trek Ellison was "a superstar at science fiction
conventions and perhaps the main single source of convention folklore; every-
one claimed...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 135–163.
Published: 01 March 2009
... P , 1986 . Csicsery-Ronay Istvan . “ Dis-Imagined Communities: Science Fiction and the Future of Nations .” Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation . Eds. Hollinger Veronica Gordon Joan . Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2002...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 105–129.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Elana Gomel COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Aldiss Brian . Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction . London : Corgi Books , 1975 . Bakhtin Mikhail . Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Issues in Literature and Aesthetics...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2001
... be in part a very particular species of detective novel,
in part a kind of science fiction."1 He goes on to explain the second of these
rather bizarre assertions of genre in eminently philosophical terms and with ref-
erence to a well-known literary example:
Following Samuel Butler, we...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 179–207.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of prose fiction, especially the novel, leading many to overemphasize the role prose genres played in this paradigm shift. In fact, an emergent poetry‐prose dichotomy enabled and was enabled by a wide range of discourses about art, culture, politics, and ethics as well as sciences. Exploring a range...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 231–253.
Published: 01 July 2016
... : Ives Washburn . Jameson Fredric . 1992 . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . ———. 2005 . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . London : Verso . Joshi S. T. 2001...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 61–78.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Magazine 4 Nov. 2007 . Web . 23 Aug. 2009 . Lethem Jonathan . “ Birnbaum v. Jonathan Lethem.” Interview with Robert Birnbaum . The Morning News 19 Oct. 2005 . Web . 23 Aug. 2009 . -- “ Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction .” Village Voice...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 41–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
...: Postmodern-
ist Long Poems that literary works in postmodernity make liberal use of "low"
forms, from science fiction in William S. Burroughs' novel Nova Express, to
the western in Edward Dorn's long poem Gunslinger. From the insights of such
critics as McHale, we have learned how low culture has...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 2011
... . “The Exterminator.” In Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction , edited by Asimov Isaac , 63 – 69 . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Zunshine Lisa . 2006 . Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Depth Perception...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 27–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Opportunities.” Science Fiction Studies 23 ( 1986 ): 355 - 358 . ---. Science-Fiction: The Early Years . Kent, OH : The Kent State UP , 1990 . Board of Trade . Companies Registration Office: Files of Dissolved Companies . No. of Company: 123946 ; British and Brazilian Trading Company, Ltd...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 189–210.
Published: 01 March 2003
... on American popular culture in the last two decades, altering
animation styles, influencing science fiction, and creating the Pokemon fad.
Anime comes in many styles and genres, from children's shows to pornography
to high art (such as Angel's Egg), from movies to television shows to direct-to-
video...
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