GENY0002 SESSION 2 2013 Academic Skills Plus Essay 2 Atwood writes: “What I mean by ‘science fiction’ is those books that descend from H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds‚ which treats of an invasion by tentacled‚ blood-sucking Martians shot to Earth in metal canisters – things that could not possibly happen – whereas‚ for me‚ “speculative fiction” means plots that descend from Jules Verne’s books about submarines and balloon travel and such – things that really could happen but just hadn’t
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GENRE: New Journalism & Creative non-fiction Definitions from The Free Dictionary: New Journalism “Journalism that is characterized by the reporter’s subjective interpretations and often features fictional dramatized elements to emphasize personal involvement.” “A style of journalism originating in the US in the 1960s‚ which uses techniques borrowed from fiction to portray a situation or event as vividly as possible.” Creative non-fiction For a text to be considered creative nonfiction
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What is Utopia? According to The Random House Dictionary‚ utopia is a place or state of political or social perfection based upon the novel of Utopia by Thomas More. Philosophers‚ writers of all sorts of novels and movies are constantly trying to imagine and conceive plans for an idyllic state of today. The irony of utopia is that it means ‘no place‚ good place’ implying that utopia is an idealistic place that can never happen in reality. Then‚ what is dystopia? Thefreedictionary.com’s definition
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Philosophical Roots of Science Fiction Expand People use science fiction to illustrate philosophy all the time. From ethical quandaries to the very nature of existence‚ science fiction’s most famous texts are tailor-made for exploring philosophical ideas. In fact‚ many college campuses now offer courses in the philosophy of science fiction. But science fiction doesn’t just illuminate philosophy — in fact‚ the genre grew out of philosophy‚ and the earliest works of science fiction were philosophical texts
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gender and sexuality in science fiction we must first agree that women and men are inherently of equal worth‚ as many writers of feminist science fiction use the genre’s position to discuss issues of change‚ injustice‚ and social partitions (Calvin). The motif of gender and sexuality in science fiction is not restricted to just one subgenre of science fiction but shows up in nearly all varieties‚ creating hybrids in the science fiction world. The genre of science fiction alone is constantly changing
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Pulp fiction‚ according to the Vintage Library (Media)‚ provides a ground for creative talent. The freedom provided in the pulp fiction created hardboiled detectives and science fiction genres. Pulp fiction is given credit for the evolution of literature‚ and fictional heroes found in today’s films. In the early nineteen-hundreds the American public was awash with creative writing publications known as pulp fiction. The name was coined from the cheap material that was used in the publications.
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Pulp Fiction was originally magazines with tales about bigger than life characters solving crimes or rescuing a damsel in distress. The stories were written on “pulp” which was the cheapest paper available in the 1930’s and 40’s. The low price and exotic new stories drew in readers like moths to a flame. The stories were filled with violence‚ risqué scenes with women‚ and drug use all too off the wall to be published by the major outlets of the time. But some authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Ray
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fantasies’.1 They are stereotyped into vacuous roles such as the romantic interest‚ damsel in distress and femme fetale. Female characters are given little to no agency by white male writers and this is overt in 20th century hard-boiled American crime fiction. In the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler‚ female characters exist only to serve as foils to re-emphasize the hyper-masculinity of the Continental Op and Phillip Marlowe‚ their respective detective protagonists. I put emphasise on the
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Analysis of Pulp Fiction by Alan Stone Alan Stone states his thesis as “Pulp Fiction is already building a cult following‚ even as its mother-fucker language and graphic violence offends others” (610). Much like Tarantino’s film‚ Stone’s article biases toward an audience with a high level of tolerance for violence‚ sick humor‚ and strong language and his ideas jump around like the scenes in the movie and leave the reader confused with poor organization. Right from the introduction paragraph
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Taylor Rogers 4/8/12 O’Neal Paper 3 ENGL 1023 Character Analysis Can one character make an entire script move with reason? In the script “Pulp Fiction” by Quentin Tarantino Vincent Vega is that voice of reason that makes the entire script move. In the script “Pulp Fiction” by Tarantino Vincent Vega is portrayed and used as the voice of reason‚ and always uses logic to get to his final assumptions. In the first scene we come across Vincent he is talking to Jules about
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