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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 529–561.
Published: 01 December 2024
... is conceptualized and explored through an engagement with recent philosophical work on the epistemology of thought experiments and their similarities, or lack thereof, with literary fiction. These points are then illustrated through examples drawn from science fiction, and specifically Isaac Asimov's Robot series...
View articletitled, Thought Experiments, Literary <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>, and <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>: The Example of Isaac Asimov's Robot Cycle
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Hilary Duffield Abstract The article analyses science fiction texts featuring time loops from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. Within its historical-environmental framework it proposes the term Anthropocene consciousness to refer to the historical process of accumulating knowledge, in both human...
View articletitled, Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
... result was a difference in reported reading behavior and reading experience between female and male readers. Male readers tended to a certain favorite genre, such as, for example, science fiction, or to a favorite author throughout their lives, whereas female readers wrote more about their changing ways...
View articletitled, The Interface between <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and Life: Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 633–674.
Published: 01 December 2006
... types of story common in fantasy and science fiction: the narrative of transworld exploration, the narrative of alternate history, and the time-travel narrative. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Ǻberg, Claes 1989 “On Characterizing Possible Worlds of Physics: Discussion of J...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... This article reads the sterility dystopia—a subgenre of science fiction where a global inability to have children results in aging populations and societal collapse—as registering the anxiety that arises at the intersection of age and the environment. Taking The Children of Men as a case study, I suggest...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (3): 327–360.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Thought ( London : Croom Helm ). Dennett Daniel. C. 2008 “ Astride the Two Cultures: A Letter to Richard Powers, Updated, ” in Burn and Dempsey 2008 : 151 – 61 . Deresiewicz William 2006 “ Science Fiction ,” Nation , October 9 , www.thenation.com/article/science-fiction...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 415–442.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Theodore W. 1967 Prisms , translated by Nicholsen Sherry Weber Weber Samuel ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press ). Aldiss Brian W. 1973 Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction ( London : Weidenfeld ). Amis Kingsley 1975 [1960] New Maps of Hell: A Survey...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 461–487.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of the Resting Human Brain ”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 ( 41 ): 17558 – 63 . Lodge David 1962 “ Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction” (review) , Modern Language Review 57 : 580 – 81 . Lyall Sarah 2005 “ Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 2014
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American traditions (Melvin Donalson); the novel of mystery, crime, and
detection (Leonard Cassuto); science fiction (Eric Rabkin); the utopian novel
( Jean Pfaelzer); gay and lesbian novels (Deborah Carlin); and the short story
cycle (Robert Luscher). The last genre/category does not constitute a novel...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 September 2016
...,” in Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination , edited by Baccolini Raffaella Moylan Tom , 113 – 34 ( New York : Routledge ). 2007 “Finding Utopia in Dystopia: Feminism, Memory, Nostalgia, and Hope,” in Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 701–703.
Published: 01 December 2024
... received her DPhil from the University of Oxford with a thesis on science fiction theory, post-critique, and cognition. She has published in both Italian and English in areas that include cognitive literary studies, literature and philosophy, and ecocriticism. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 477.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., narrative, theory of genre, and the
fantastic. She has published articles on Dickens, Wilkie Collins, science fiction, and
the fascist body in Textual Practice, Science-Fiction Studies, Victorian Journal Institute, Post-
Identity...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 June 2017
... 20 , no. 6 : 414 – 24 . Ruppersburg Hugh 1987 “The Alien Messiah in Recent Science Fiction Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 14 , no. 4 : 158 – 66 . Schelde Per 1994 Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters: Science and Soul...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 March 2016
... geographic displacement (e.g., exile) provides a vantage point from which a reevaluation of established genres and discourses of textual production becomes possible. The experience of exile allows Shklovsky to challenge such categories as fiction (in literary and historical narratives) and nonfiction (both...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Terence Cave Literary utterances reflect the situatedness of cognition itself both through their historico-cultural specificity and through their deployment of highly particularized language. It follows that the literary archive (in the broadest sense, all forms of storytelling, fiction, poetry...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2022
... emphasize fiction's close engagement with other fields of knowledge, and the ways in which literature interacts, in its thematic and formal features, with developments in science and policy (see Caracciolo 2019 ; Levine 2015 ; Vermeulen 2018 ). By drawing from environmental policy terms, this article...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... aboriginal epic Carpentaria ) and film (Max Barbakow's romantic comedy Palm Springs , Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's horror movie The Endless , or Stefon Bristol's science fiction drama See You Yesterday ) to television (the first season of Netflix's series Russian Doll ) or video games (Luís...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2012
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to stand in for all the institutionally sanctioned forms of writing” (28).
The fourth strand concerns the positioning of science fiction, a genre
somewhat outside the boundaries of canonical literature, within the con-
temporary American literary landscape. Punday looks at its postmodernist
variety...
View articletitled, Five Strands of <span class="search-highlight">Fictionality</span>: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 130–131.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in for all the institutionally sanctioned forms of writing” (28).
The fourth strand concerns the positioning of science fiction, a genre
somewhat outside the boundaries of canonical literature, within the con-
temporary American literary landscape. Punday looks at its postmodernist
variety, often...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2012
...
to stand in for all the institutionally sanctioned forms of writing” (28).
The fourth strand concerns the positioning of science fiction, a genre
somewhat outside the boundaries of canonical literature, within the con-
temporary American literary landscape. Punday looks at its postmodernist
variety...
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