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Vertiefungsseminar
SoSe 18: Art of Science Fiction
Birte Wege
Kommentar
Science fiction has long allowed authors to explore new ideas, philosophies, and technologies in thought-provoking ways. In spite of this, in the first half of the 20th Century, much science fiction writing was considered formulaic and stylistically conservative. Since the 1960s, however, and the ‘New Wave’ in SciFi, American writers in particular have left behind many established conventions to produce work that is both challenging and innovative, and has gained increased recognition and relevance beyond the confines of the genre.
In this seminar, we will analyze works by some of the most significant American science fiction writers from the 1960s to the present, including Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, and others. Our discussion will also include SciFi works in film and comics form. We will examine how these writers (and artists) make use of the unique specificities of the SciFi genre to address, both in content and form, a variety of political, social, and cultural issues, including race, gender, capitalist society, and developments in technology.
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