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- Title
Objectives and Methods in the Analysis of Science Fiction: The Case of Science-Fiction Studies.
- Authors
Borgmeier, Raimund
- Abstract
The articles in the first 15 volumes of SFS are worth examining as examples of the kind of work that is being done and can be done in the field of SF. There is a decided emphasis on theoretical questions, which are dealt with through a wide variety of approaches. The history of the genre is less prominent as a research topic, though some attention is paid to SF's prehistory and early history. A broadening of perspective becomes most noticeable in the interest in Utopia and the awareness of other media. All in all, the article in SFS realize the ‘critical opening’ that the editors in 1979 identified as the journal's principal aim. But in spite of editorial intentions, a great many of the essays in SFS are still concerned with single SF authors (Ursula Le Guin foremost among them). Even so, SFS is striking for its internationalism, and at the same time demonstrates that the study of SF texts can stand comparison with work in other areas in point of its literary-critical and scholarly value.
- Subjects
SCIENCE fiction; LITERARY criticism; SCIENCE Fiction Studies (Periodical); LITERATURE &; science; HISTORY of periodicals; LE Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018; NOVELISTS
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 1990, Vol 17, Issue 3, p383
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Article