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Flann O’Brien’s Speculative Fiction
The Parish Review, 2013 This essay shows how Brian O'Nolan's narrative structures contribute towards a distinctive fictional form of 'speculative fiction', which is bound up with a certain contempt for science, most especially physics, as well as a kind of obsession with the ...
Baylee Brits
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Speculating on Speculative Fiction
Journal of Curriculum Theorizingjan jagodzinski
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Genre-Specific Irrealia in Translation: Can Irrealia Help Define Speculative Fiction Sub-Genres? [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2022 Speculative fiction texts and their translation, particularly from English, have been gradually rising in prominence. However, not only do speculative fiction and its sub-genres remain only vaguely defined in general despite numerous attempts by both ...
Matej Martinkovič
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HYBRID SPECULATIVE FICTION AS A GENRE PHENOMENON IN MODERN LITERATURE OF THE U.S. AND RUSSIA
Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2022 The article is devoted to theoretical exploration of modern hybrid speculative fiction. This term comprises a huge body of creative works which are written at the intersection of genres related to speculative prose.
Malykh V. S.
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Architecture Image Studies Scientific Journal, 2021 This text offers a writerly experiment aimed at developing a possible method of critical speculative fiction. The subject is an imaginary island modelled on the Cycladic island of Amorgos, Greece, which is depicted here as an all-encompassing design ...
Marko Jobst
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The Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2020 Runit Dome is an eighteen-inch thick concrete dome covering the buried nuclear waste from twenty-three atomic tests conducted by the US military in the 1940s and ’50s in Pikinni Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Aimee Bahng
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Speculative Fiction for the Future of Man and Civilization [PDF]
Future Human Image, 2019 The main thesis of the article is the comparison of speculative fiction with the challenges facing modern man. Introductory questions are two issues. How can fantasy become the subject of cultural reflection on the future of human civilization?
Bogdan Trocha
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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds [PDF]
, 2020 This paper introduces “infrastructural speculations,” an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design.
Bennett Cynthia L. +48 more
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Naomi Alderman’s The Power: A Speculative Feminist Dystopian Fiction Mirroring the Here and Now
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2022 Speculative fiction, containing speculative elements based on supposition and imagination, changes the dynamics of what is real or possible as we perceive them in our current world and then surmises the likely consequences.
Sen Tuhin Shuvra
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Why speculative fiction? A few side notes on former and contemporary readings [PDF]
, 2016 Works of speculative fiction are among the most often chosen cultural texts. Article indicates several possible reasons of their popularity, such as breaking stereotypes and thinking patterns, inspirations for new solutions, tales of traditional values ...
Gemra, Anna
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