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Long, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.
Full textLong, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.
Full textInformationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The theoretical framework introduces a new informational theoretic re-framing of existing science fiction literary theoretic posits such as Darko Suvin's novum, the mega-text as conceived of by Damien Broderick, and the work of Samuel R Delany in investigating the subjunctive mood in SF. An informational aesthetics of SF proper is established, and the influence of analytic philosophy - especially modal logic - is investigated. The materialist foundations of the metaphysical outlook of SF proper is investigated with a view to elucidating the importance of the relationship between scientific materialism and SF. SF is presented as The Fiction of Veridical, Counterfactual and Heterogeneous Information.
Perna, Sandro Maria <1981>. "Science (in) fiction. Un CLIL de science à travers... la science (fiction)." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15543.
Full textSjörs, Simon. "Fysikundervisningens science fiction." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fysikundervisningens didaktik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331199.
Full textScience fiction or rather popular media is a major part of everyday life in today's society. Students consume this media in their spare time and watch it for entertainment, possibly without even reflecting over the consumed content. This paper will focus on science fiction and how the well-produced media is received and reflected upon by the consumers, in this case upper-secondary physics students. Is there an opportunity for physics teachers or other natural sciences teachers to make good use of the interest and the pseudo science, that these media can convey, at school? Pupils have an idea of what physics is in school considering how physics education is laid out and the purpose of this work is to explore possible ways that these different worlds can meet. The work is aimed at evaluating a one hour session done with a student group consisting of 6 physics students in high school. The essence of the survey is to see what types of discussions occur after viewing one or more movie clips containing different physical phenomena. The physical events are shown in movieclips and can be explained by the physics we have today or there may be unrealistic events that cannot be explained. This kind of popular media is often based on creating emotional connections with the consumer which can take away the connection to reality and the real world physics. The theoretical framework that the study was based on is the concept of ownership of learning, this aims to consider how students evaluate their own ideas and take responsibility for following up on previous ideas or questions that they themselves expressed. That way the students hopefully find value in critical thinking and the retention of knowledge might increase.
Fondanèche, Daniel. "Emergence d'une nouvelle science-fiction en 1960, influence des sciences-fictions americaines et anglaises des annees 60 sur la science-fiction francaise de 1974 a 1980." Limoges, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989LIMO0506.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to show that a new form of science fiction came into being in the united states and in great britain in 1960 and that, in france, this movement lasted well into the seventies. The novels that have been selected were published between 1960 and 1973 for anglo-american countries and between 1973 and 1980 for france. This emerging s. F. Was characterised by a revival of the old conventional themes ans the apparition of new topics. These new forms of s. F. Shared a common aim : to use the present times in order to break through separation between general literature and s. F. . They underwent changes, the most remarkable of wich was without doubt this commitment to a modern form of humanism. The novels selected in the corpus show the transculturation which m. Mead and t. Roszak highlighted. The emergence of this new themes has been justified and explained with reference to the conventional use of topics, the history of the genre and the political socio-economic and cultural changes which took place in the western world in the early sixties. Finally, the author attempted to comprehend the content and the limits of this new form of s. F. , not all of their contributions have survived into the eighties
von, Knorring Ulrika. "”Läser science fiction utan att skämmas” : Om kvinnors läsning av science fiction." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19875.
Full textWhite, Craig (Craig E. ). 1971. "Science fiction to science fact : the link between early science fiction and the space programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9572.
Full textJuhlin, Hampus, and Pontus Novén. "Science fiction i spelutveckling." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3890.
Full textDess populäritet är tydlig, men hur spridd är användingen av science fiction i dagens spelindustri? Hur kan man använda sagda populäritet för att slå igenom som utvecklare utan att försvinna i mängden? Detta arbetet studerar subgenrer, specialiserade undergrupper till science fiction som tar upp just de områden du vill utnyttja för din projektidé och hur du kan utveckla egna sådana om du inte finner vad du söker bland de befintliga.
Hampus Juhlin telnr. 076-1853950 Pontus Novén telnr. 073-4448595
Langer, Jessica. "Science fiction and postcolonialism." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538778.
Full textGrimm, Gunter E. "Kometenforschung zwischen Aberglauben und Science-fiction - Comet research between superstition and science fiction." Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2002. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-08162002-150835/.
Full textGallagher, Ron. "Science fiction and language : language and the imagination in post-war science fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1986. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/90798/.
Full textJorgensen, Darren J. "Science fiction and the sublime." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0116.
Full textStolze, Pierre. "Rhétorique de la science-fiction." Nancy 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994NAN21004.
Full textThe study of science-fiction follows the principal division of classical rhetoric. Invention (content) : science fiction has no theme of its own except that of the individual in the face of authority, the context of a science fiction text is a collection of metaphors arranged under the form of allegory. Composition (structure): a science fiction text often consists of various literary devices, such as cut up, ellipsis, jigsaws, suspense. Elocution (stylistics): the study of large range of vocabulary, of a reduced syntax and stylistics devices (mostly figures of thought not of word as is the case in classical literature). Action (metatext): the study of titles, acknowledgements, first and fourth covers pages. Here, one must add a definition: science fiction is definite by is relationship or opposition with literature, non-mainstream literature, science, the literature of the fantastic and anticipation
HERNOT, DOMINIQUE. "Corps feminin : science et fiction." Paris 8, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA080492.
Full textOur work; based ont he study of science-fiction novels written between the thirties and the eighties, examines specific examples of some ways in which woman's body is presented, figured and disfigured, explores the impact of a religious and mythological tradition ont he science-fiction literature. Woman's body, just like an industrail product, is submitted to the market laws, symbol of woman's reification, result of a "machination", sex and technology, science and pornography being linked together. The ancestral feminine "natural" reproductive capacity is supplanted by the possibility of asexual reproduction. New symbolical and imaginary configurations are analysed in the light of recent research. Science and technology have profound effects on sex roles and definitions. Fiction, history, mythology and science, in their own language, ask the same questions about similitudes and differences between the sexes
Rood, Jason R. "Reconstructing a Science Fiction Autobiography." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3853.
Full textHadder, R. Neill (Richard Neill). "Techniques of Social-science-fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278249/.
Full textVeith, Errol, and n/a. "Screening Science: Contexts, Texts and Science in Fifties Science Fiction Film." Griffith University. School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, 1999. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051012.112131.
Full textVeith, Errol. "Screening Science: Contexts, Texts and Science in Fifties Science Fiction Film." Thesis, Griffith University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366488.
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School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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Hall, Graham. "The Ambivalence of Science Fiction: Science Fiction, Neo-imperialism, and the Ideology of Modernity as Progress." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/948.
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Leperlier, Henry. "Canadian science fiction, a reluctant genre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0033/NQ61856.pdf.
Full textTravis, Mitchell. "Interrogating personhood : law and science fiction." Thesis, Keele University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602983.
Full textLeperlier, Henri. "Canadian science fiction a reluctant genre." Thèse, Université de Sherbrooke, 1998. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2707.
Full textAlsulami, Mabrouk. "Science Fiction Elements in Gothic Novels." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2016. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/47.
Full textShaw, Maya. "⏁⊑⊬⟊, ⏁⎎⎅☌⊬⍜⍀: Alien Languages In Science Fiction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194006.
Full textLeperlier, Henri. "Canadian science fiction: A reluctant genre." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1999.
Find full textRoss, Simon David. "Nostalgia in postmodern science fiction film." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23472741.
Full textOtto, Eric. "Science fiction and the ecological conscience." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013481.
Full textMäättä, Jerry. "Raketsommar : science fiction i Sverige 1950-1968 /." Lund : Ellerström, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7158.
Full textRingh, Maria. "Science fiction på folkbiblioteken : en studie av science fiction-böcker utifrån hylluppställning och BTJ:s påverkan på bibliotekens inköp." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101877.
Full textSchüler, Anja [Verfasser]. "Neologismen in der Science Fiction / Anja Schüler." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1099858682/34.
Full textHolden, James. "Intersections : reading science fiction and critical thought." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445655.
Full textShaw, Debra Benita. "The feminist perspective : women writing science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386254.
Full textWood, Aylish. "Technoscience in the cinema : beyond science fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313246.
Full textRiga, Fryni. "Students' ideas in astronomy : science or fiction?" Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708755.
Full textMäättä, Jerry. "Raketsommar : Science fiction i Sverige 1950–1968." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7158.
Full textDrolet, Cynthia L. (Cynthia Lea). "Four Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500548/.
Full textWoods, Randy (Randy C. ). 1968 Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "A typological analysis of Canadian science fiction." Ottawa.:, 1993.
Find full textVollprecht, Sabine. "Science-Fiction für Kinder in der DDR /." Stuttgart : H.-D. Heinz, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375362135.
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Tranter, Kieran. "Technical Legality: Law, Technology and Science Fiction." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366905.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Law School
Arts, Education and Law
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Dick, Barbara Kathleen. "Modern Arabic science fiction : science, society and religion in selected texts." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11907/.
Full textBousseton, Patrick. "Démographie et science-fiction : le syndrome de la surpopulation dans la science-fiction anglo-saxonne (1950 à nos jours)." Paris 10, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA100108.
Full textStatham, Anne. "Science fiction : a symbiosis of text and reader." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1989. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36380/1/36380_Statham_1989.pdf.
Full textParslow, Michelle Lisa. "Women, science and technology : the genealogy of women writing utopian science fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3058.
Full textKölsch, Thomas. "Homo Plasticator : antike Menschenschöpfungsmythen in der Science Fiction /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017655231&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textFranks, Jamie N. "Becoming Other: Virtual Realities in Contemporary Science Fiction." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1908.
Full textChohan, Imran Riaz. "Identity, hyperreality and Science fiction : Matrix and Neuromancer." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5779.
Full textProietti, Salvatore. "The cyborg, cyberspace, and North American science fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0021/NQ44558.pdf.
Full textClarke, Louisa. "The reproductive body in contemporary science fiction film /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc5985.pdf.
Full textGreve, Karsten [Verfasser]. "Die Science-Fiction-Literatur der DDR / Karsten Greve." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1143596048/34.
Full textBeaulé, Sophie. "L'institution de la science-fiction française, 1977-1983." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65469.
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