Science Fiction And Fantasy
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491_9783656703501
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: What makes a text a science fiction text? What makes it a fantasy text? Inthis study, I would like to discuss why it is impossible to clearly draw a linebetween these two genres. In order to do so, I am going to focus on thejustification of the unreal, respectively, the supernatural elements of astory. I shall be discussing why a text can be considered a science fictiontext or a fantasy text - and why, in some cases, there is no clear answer tothe question of which genre a text is belongs to. While one might answer thetwo questions put at the beginning of this study rather quickly by stating arule of thumb - scientific elements make a text a science fiction text,magical ones make it a fantasy text - it is obvious that this would lead to avery broad definition. It is thus necessary to go into detail, which I am goingto do. In order to investigate what, apart from the technical and the magicalelements, are the characteristics of the respective genres mentioned at thebeginning, I am going to give the definitions of these terms which can befound in standard reference texts. In order to go into detail, I shall add moreinformation from academic literature about the fantastic genre, which bothscience fiction and fantasy are part of. I would then like to go a step furtherby testing the definitions with the help of three texts - H.G. Wellss TheWar of the Worlds as an example for the science fiction genre and BramStokers Dracula as an example for a fantasy text. In addition, I shall bediscussing Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein. In this text, thereare elements of both science fiction and of fantasy. After this, I would like toconclude my study.Any selection of texts will necessarily be arbitrary, as it is impossibleto include everything into a study like this. I chose three tex
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