Essays about: "science fiction"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 116 essays containing the words science fiction.

1. 11. Close Encounters and the Role of Information and Communication Technology in Science Fiction Cinema

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för samhälle, kultur och identitet (SKI)

   Author : Christian Paredes Guzman; [2023]
   Keywords : Technology; History; Science Fiction; ICT; Aliens; Actor-Network Theory;

   Abstract : Science Fiction movies have in recent decades become sources of information and interpretation, in other words, a window that reflects the time period in which they were made. While the role of technology has been researched in science fiction material, not much focus has been put into researching specific types of technology. READ MORE

3. 12. Comparing Official and Fan Translation of Neologisms in The Irregular at Magic High School

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Jakob Bagge; [2023]
   Keywords : Neologism; Japanese-English translation; fantasy; science fiction; light novel; fan translation;

   Abstract : This study examined the translation of neologisms in the fan and official translations of the first book of the The Irregular at Magic High School light novel series. It aimed to examine whether the choices of translation strategies differed between the two as well as how the word type and choice of translation strategy affected the end result. READ MORE

4. 13. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

5. 14. “The Answer to the Great Question” : The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Narrative Worldmaking 

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Marina Allbäck; [2022]
   Keywords : Science fiction; cognitive narratology; narrative worldmaking; components of the genre; time; space; characters; The Hitchhiker’s Guide; Douglas Adams;

   Abstract : Abstract Cognitive narratology constitutes the study of mind-related aspects of storytelling embracing the nexus of narrative and mind. Theorists in the sphere of cognitive narratology believe that the mental capacities of the reader provide basis for narrative experience involving him or her in the process of co-creation of narrative worlds. READ MORE

6. 15. The Dissatisfaction of Utopia in Iain M. Banks's Culture Novels

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Björn Carlsten; [2022]
   Keywords : utopia; science-fiction; Iain Banks; the Culture; teaching;

   Abstract : The Culture is a utopian civilization that features in the science-fiction novels of Iain M. Banks that has some claim to be as comprehensively satisfactory and universal in its appeal as possible. READ MORE