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Noted critics and authors write on various aspects of science fiction
as a genre. Kingslay Amis identifies the roots of modern sci-fi in
Shakespeare; Stanislaw Lem discusses some of the logical implications
of time travel stories as employed by Bradbury, Heinlein, Frederic
Brown and others; while CS Lewis considers the various categories of
science fiction & Darko Suvin presents a comprehensive discussion
of how sci-fi works.
The main idea of this study can be expressed in a few words: the syntactic component of the faculty of language is responsible for ordering categories and for ordering categories only. This would be a completely uninteresting thought, a truism, if one did not attempt to account for how and why the attested patterns emerge from the external requirements that the syntactic component has to satisfy.
This volume strives to cover those works most often found in high-school and undergraduate literature courses. Entries fall into one of four categories: biographical articles on novelists; plot synopses for selected novels; literary terms and genres (e.g., Feminism, Surrealism); and historical events (e.g., French Revolution) that influenced novelists writing in French. The first two categories account for the overwhelming majority of entries. Although well-known authors such as Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust are here, so, too, are contemporary novelists such as Raphael Confiant, Assia Djebar, and Antonine Maillet, hailing from Martinique, Algeria, and Canada, respectively.
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