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The Critique of America in Contemporary Science Fiction

2016
As with many people of my age, much of my early science fiction experience came from reading the works of Robert A. Heinlein, both his widely distributed ‘juveniles’ and others. It might be more respectful, and would certainly be more unusual, to try to identify the reason for Heinlein’s appeal at that age,...
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Crime Fiction as Socio-political Critique

2005
Abstract Evan Hunter argues that crime fiction is a genre ‘wide enough not to be subverted if you want to make social comments ‘; it is, James Ellroy maintains, ‘the perfect vehicle ‘ for social and political criticism.1 The remainder of this study will focus on writers who, like Ellroy and Hunter, see detective and crime fiction as ...
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Critique et fiction : petits meurtres entre amis

Recherches & Travaux, 2002
Monluçon Anne-Marie. Critique et fiction : petits meurtres entre amis. In: Recherches & Travaux, n°60, 2002. Critique et fiction. pp. 123-142.
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Is the Micro Macho? A Critique of the Fictions of Advertising

1990
The masculine attributes of computers have been legend in feminist critiques of technology. Men, the arguments go, have misappropriated its development over the centuries. Their machinations with machinery have led them to construct an alter ego of male proportions, manifesting itself in the persona of the computer. ‘For men only.’ Including their hard
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Frontières archipéliques, fictions critiques

Frontières de la fiction (décembre 1999), 2022
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Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction

2019
Abstract Postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking the prehistory of our present. The genre’s treatment of colonialism as geographically omnivorous yet temporally “out of joint” with itself gives it a special purchase on the continuities between the colonial era and our own. These features also enable
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"Critique sociale" versus "critique artiste" : une fiction sociologique

2020
International ...
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Fiction: A Critique

2021
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The fiction of simulation: a critique of Bostrom’s simulation argument

AI & SOCIETY, 2021
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Imperialist critique in Anglo-American science fiction

2019
In recent years, Anglo-American science fiction has been read as a form of literature that is complicit in the imperialist project—as “empire’s propaganda arm, its R&D lab”, as Gerry Canavan (2012) has noted. Although a number of influential ‘imperial turn’ SF scholars (John Rieder, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Andy Sawyer, Jessica Langer, David Seed ...
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