Translation of Neologisms in Science Fiction: The Textual Reality or Unreality of The Target Text
As the representations of the notion of alienation, fictive neologies help the reader to rationalize the plausibility of an imaginary world. Through these innovations, science fiction distinguishes its imaginary world from the world we actually live in ...
Özge Aksoy, Ayşe Selmin Söylemez
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Paralittératures. Les indispensables (une bibliothèque de référence) [PDF]
Ces orientations bibliographiques, adressées au lecteur désireux d'en savoir plus sur l'étude du récit paralittéraire, comprennent des ouvrages généraux et de références, quelques collectifs et quelques études théoriques (mais pas d'analyse d'auteurs ...
Spehner, Norbert
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Doctors in space (ships): biomedical uncertainties and medical authority in imagined futures [PDF]
There has been considerable interest in images of medicine in popular science fiction and in representations of doctors in television fiction. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to doctors administering space medicine in science fiction.
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“Check Your Network Connection”: Cyberpunk Visions of Disembodied Labor in Sleep Dealer
The economic and social dimensions of the Mexico-U.S. border make up a topic frequently discussed within the field of North American Studies. Such studies typically concern the exploitative labor and immigration policies of the United States, which ...
Michael Pitts
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Love thy extra-terrestrial neighbour: Charity and compassion in Luc Besson’s space operas The Fifth Element (1997) and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) [PDF]
The role of romantic love in cinema – and its redeeming aspects – has been extensively explored in film studies and beyond. However, non-romantic aspects of love, especially love for the neighbour, have not yet received as much attention.
Magerstaedt, Sylvie
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Penser l’histoire de la science-fiction
Dans cet entretien, Gérard Klein discute des conditions nécessaires au développement d’une critique universitaire de science-fiction. Il revient également sur la situation actuelle de la science-fiction en France.
Simon Bréan, Gérard Klein
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La contribution d’Antonio Buero Vallejo au théâtre de science-fiction espagnol
Science fiction in the theatre is not a subject that has received much attention from the scientific community. There are still many scholars – in science fiction and theatre – who believe that this genre is difficult to put on the stage satisfactorily ...
Miguel Carrera Garrido
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In recent science-fiction literature, we can witness a proliferation of new counterfactual narratives which take the 17th century as their point of departure. Unlike steampunk narratives, however, their aim is not to criticise the socio-political effects
Chaberski Mateusz
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The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum
This article explores the role that science fiction (sf) texts might play in the museum, offering a perspective on acts of collection, curation, exhibition, and museum architecture, to ask what the museums of science fiction futures can offer those of us
Amy Butt
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What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative Fiction?
In my book Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, I use the phrase “double estrangement” to describe science fiction texts that add a layer of racial self-consciousness to the estrangement of science fictional settings.
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
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