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Speculation and fiction: introduction [PDF]
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2015 As students of literature, one of the most frequent questions we encounter is: how does one write anything? What are the factors responsible for writing fiction? Does fiction have its autonomous qualities? Put in a slightly different way: what is thought or how is thought put into fiction?
Bhattacharya, Sourit +1 more
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, 2016 Science fiction (SF) emerges as a distinct literary and cultural genre out of a familiar set of world-famous texts ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek (1966–) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–) that have,
Canavan, Gerry
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Building an Argument for the Use of Science Fiction in HCI Education
, 2018 Science fiction literature, comics, cartoons and, in particular, audio-visual materials, such as science fiction movies and shows, can be a valuable addition in Human-computer interaction (HCI) Education. In this paper, we present an overview of research
C Vrasidas +10 more
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Speculative Fictions of Slavery [PDF]
American Literature, 2010 Since the 1970s, African American novelists have persistently drawn on antirealist genres (including science fiction, fantasy, ghost stories, and magic realism) to revisit the history of slavery. Focusing on literary and mass-market fiction by authors such as Stephen Barnes, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, James McBride, and Phyllis Alesia Perry, Dubey ...
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Fear appeal construction in the Daily Mail Online:a critical discourse analysis of ‘Prime Minister Corbyn and the 1000 days that destroyed Britain’ [PDF]
, 2017 The rhetorical fear appeal is a technique of political communication that seeks to elicit an emotional response in receivers with the intention of provoking them to political action desired by the rhetor.
Panay, Andrew
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“No powers, man!”: A student perspective on designing university smart building interactions [PDF]
, 2020 Smart buildings offer an opportunity for better performance and enhanced experience by contextualising services and interactions to the needs and practices of occupants.
Alavi Hamed S. +15 more
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Fallow Futures: A Short Story [PDF]
, 2018 What will the future be like? And how will humans live with, within the natural world? As we hear more and more of natural phenomena and land formations that are not only protected but also granted legal rights equivalent to those of humans (recently ...
Hope, Jonathan
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Island Studies JournalThe study of islands in speculative fiction intersects with cultural geography, political theory, and literary futurology. It unfolds within the concept of relational shifts between islands and continents, the deconstruction and reconstruction of the ...
Yuqin Jiang, Mingying Zhou, Ping Su
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What is Speculative Climate Fiction?
Fafnir, 2020 Here, at the end of 2010s, it is relatively safe to say that climate fiction is here to stay. Born as the unfortunate love child of global environmental crisis and narrative imagination, climate fiction is a timely cultural reaction to the growing ...
Juha Raipola
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Defining Speculative Film: In Search of a New Space in Science Fiction Cinema Through Solaris [PDF]
, 2011 34 pagesMy approach in this M.A. dissertation is twofold: on the one hand I explore the playful ‘staging’ of Sigmund Freud’s notion of the ‘id’ in SF cinema and its effects on SF genre. On the other hand I attempt to define a new term: ‘speculative film’
Turan, Müge
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