Browsing by Subject "science fiction"

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  • CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità  

    Fattori, Adolfo (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
    The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ...

  • La Planète Mars dans les romans de science-fiction anglo-saxons des années 1990: La Peur du monstre de pierre 

    Villers, Aurelie (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    When it deals with the planet Mars, nineteen-nineties science-fiction faces an alternative: either the heroes adapt to Mars' hard conditions (and that's "pantropy"), or they adapt Mars to make it livable for human beings ...

  • Literary Speculations: Postmodern Dystopia and the Future of Books 

    Corrie, Emily P (2012-08-30)
    This thesis identifies a trend in recent postmodern dystopian fiction for writers to metafictionally dwell on the place of literature in a future context. This trend springs from similar concerns present in the two most ...

  • Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction 

    Bettanin, Giuliano (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    Science-fiction and horror are closely related genres, both belonging to the larger domain of fantastic literature. They share a partly common history. This article aims to examine how Philip K. Dick, one of the most ...

  • Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à  la fusion 

    Suvilay, Bounthavy (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    Through the history of a sub-genre of science-fiction (cartoons featuring giant robots), this article attempts to identify how the robot switches roles, going from simple instrument to essential part of the plot. The various ...

  • The Way Forward: Ecofeminism and the Creation of Society in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction 

    Segato, Noelle (2021-04-08)
    This thesis uses an ecofeminist lens to analyze the patriarchal and anthropocentric ideologies presented in Joelle Charbonneau’s "The Testing" (2013), Scott Westerfeld’s "Uglies" (2005), and Suzanne Collins’ "The Hunger ...