scholarly journals Lampadius, Stefan. The Human Future? Artificial Humans and Evolution in Anglophone Science Fiction of the 20th Century. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Brandstetter
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century

Review of The Human Future? Artificial Humans and Evolution in Anglophone Science Fiction of the 20th century by Stefan Lampadius.

scholarly journals THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A WAY TO MAN AND MACHINE IN COMBAT IN TIME MACHINE AND I ROBOT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Sumathi R ◽  
Sutharshan V
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Future Events

Science fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It can be explained as a combination of science and technology and development in robotics in short it can be otherwise called as ‘realistic speculation about future events and a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment. It has been called a form of fantasy fiction and an historical literature. The paper goes further with two main concepts one with clash between two people of future and the other with advancement of science particularly on robotics. First is about general outline to science fiction in short a (SF) a genre cause problem because itdoes not recognize the hybrid nature of many SF works. It is more helpful to think of it as a mode or field where different genres and subgenres intersect. And then there is the issue of science. In the early decades of the 20th century, a number of writers attempted to tie this fiction to science and event to use it as a means of promoting scientific knowledge, a position which continues into what has become known as ‘hard SF’. The research article is completely based on advancement of science and its effects.

The Apprentice

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
The Other ◽  
John Ford ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter provides a background on Terence Fisher's career that is regarded by most as that of a journeyman director and by French critics that argued that Fisher was a master filmmaker since the 1950s. It looks at the efforts of David Pirie and others who brought about the first serious critical appraisal of Fisher's work beginning in the late 1960s. It also describes Fisher as the greatest Gothic filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century and British equivalent in terms of style and seriousness of the great American myth-master, John Ford. The chapter mentions The Curse of Frankenstein, in which Fisher creates a real, believable world, and does superb work with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and the other members of the cast. It talks about Fisher's admission toward the end of his life about he had very little affection for science fiction.

scholarly journals A CONSTRUÇÃO DO HERÓI NO DESENHO ANIMADO: O PERÍODO DAS NARRATIVAS HÍBRIDAS (1980 – 2000)

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-260
Author(s):  
Fernando Teixeira Luiz
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
Animated Cartoon ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
Do So

Revela-se, nas últimas décadas do século XX, a incidência de séries animadas protagonizadas por heróis primordiais, afinados à mitologia pagã e às Novelas de Cavalaria. Nessa direção, o presente estudo ocupa-se em rastrear, a partir de uma perspectiva crítica, descritiva e historicista, as propostas veiculadas pelo cinema gráfico entre 1980 e 2000 e suas articulações com a literatura, o cinema e os quadrinhos. Não está em cogitação, assim, a análise minuciosa de uma obra, mas o delineamento de um panorama histórico que permita visualizar as perspectivas de representação de heróis tradicionais ao longo de vinte anos. Para tanto, recorre-se à crítica especializada, às teorias da narrativa e aos estudos sobre desenho animado e indústria cultural. Em linhas gerais, a pesquisa apontou para um quadro curioso, se comparado às décadas anteriores, marcado, predominantemente, pelo hibridismo. Assim, diversos estúdios lançavam mão de uma teia de signos típicos de circuitos específicos, como o universo da mitologia, o substrato medieval, a literatura arturiana, a fantasia futurista, o faroeste norte-americano e as fontes lendárias dos samurais. Palavras-chave: Desenho animado. Literatura. Estética. Leitor. Herói. THE CONSTRUCTION OF HEROES IN CARTOONS: THE PERIOD OF HYBRID NARRATIVES (1980 – 2000) Abstract: The last decades of the 20th century saw the incidence of animated series featuring primordial heroes, attuned to pagan mythology and to chivalric romance. From a critical, descriptive and historical perspective, this paper aims to track the initiatives conveyed in animated movies between 1980 and 2000 and their correlation with literature, cinema and comic books. The paper offers a historical outline, which provides an overview of perspectives that traditional heroes were represented within a twenty-year time span. In order to do so, it relies on specialized criticism, narrative theory, and on studies about animation and cultural industry. Overall, it points towards an interesting scenario if compared to earlier decades, which were mostly marked by the presence of hybridity. Thus, diverse studios employed a network of signs from specific contexts, such as mythology, medievalism, Arthurian literature, science fiction, American western, and Japanese samurai epics. Keywords: Animated Cartoon. Literature. Aesthetics. Reader. Hero.

scholarly journals FANTASTIC CONSERVATISM: THE CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY IN WESTERN AND RUSSIAN FANTASTIC LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M VAFIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
Philosophy Today ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Conservative Values

In one of the lectures a Russian philosopher said: philosophy today is literature. The noted philosopher in his statement relies on the ideas of the French (post)structuralism's. As you know, French thought in the mid-20th century influenced a variety of intellectual schools, from American literary studies to Russian academic philosophy in the 1990s. Literature-centered approach characteristic of modern philosophy. The process of centering on literature is not started in the XX century. Since the eighteenth century, France, Russia, and Germany have been plunging into the worlds of literature on the verge of philosophy or philosophy on the verge of literature. The idea was presented in a variety of ideological formats from socialism and liberalism to conservatism. And if ideologically, more or less, the authors can be identified, then it is impossible to give a clear answer to the question of who all these people are, writers or philosophers. This article analyzes the phenomenon of fantastic conservatism. Conservative values in Western and Russian science fiction literature are analyzed.

scholarly journals Citizen of the universe. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s cosmic philosophy and science fiction

2017 ◽  
pp. 335-360
Author(s):  
Piotr Klafkowski
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Soviet Science ◽  
Large School ◽  
Soviet Science Fiction ◽  
The Universe

The paper discusses Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s philosophy as it can be reconstructed from his writings of two kinds, the academic papers and the works generally, though not always correctly, classified as science fiction. It is stressed that Tsiolkovsky belongs to the large school of Russian philosophers known as the Cosmists, and he is placed within the group of 20th century academic-minded Cosmists. The first part of the paper reconstructs Tsiolkovsky’s cosmic philosophy on the basis of his philosophical works, which amount to half of his published works. The second part of the paper discusses all the works by Tsiolkovsky available in English under the science fiction label. The paper also contains comparisons of Tsiolkovsky’s views with the philosophicalreligious system propagated by Nicholas and Helena Roerich, known as Agni Yoga, and its ancient Indian roots. It is also mentioned that Tsiolkovsky played an important role in the development of the early Russian, or more properly Soviet, science fiction movies. The paper stresses that Tsiolkovsky always based his writings on solid scientific foundations, so that the label “science fiction” does not always apply to them.

Ideology and Futurology in Early 20th-Century Britain: Wells, Haldane, Bernal, and Their Critics

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Peter J. Bowler
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Collective Mentality

This chapter studies the response of rationalist writers to the claims of theologians arguing that their ideology lacked any sense of a wider purpose to human life. It is argued that to replace the spiritual dimension of religion, authors such as H. G. Wells, J. B. S. Haldane, and J. D. Bernal appealed to the possibility that the human race could in future develop a collective mentality and spread this awareness throughout the cosmos by space travel. Their ideas thus anticipated themes developed by later science-fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke in his 2001: A Space Odyssey.

An American Story

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Kiš
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Danilo Kis ◽  
The U.S

The twelve stories in this collection, published in various journals and newspapers in Yugoslavia between 1953 and 1967, provide fascinating insights into the development of Danilo Kiš as a writer. From lapidary childhood idylls to harrowing foreshadowings of the Holocaust, from a satirical treatment of totalitarianism to a philosophical reflection on perception and form, the subject matter is remarkably varied. The highly unusual title story is even set amidst the U.S. civil rights struggles of the 20th century, and several of the tales are redolent of science fiction.

The Radium Terrors

Nuncius ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Candela
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Radioactive Elements ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Public Imagination

At the beginning of the 20th century the collective imagination was fascinated and terrified by the discovery of radium. A scientific imagery sprang up around radioactivity and was disseminated by public lectures and newspaper articles discussing the ambiguous power of this strange substance. It was claimed that radium could be used to treat cholera, typhus and tuberculosis, but at the same time there were warnings that it could be used for military purposes. The media and the scientists themselves employed a rich vocabulary influenced by religion, alchemy and magic. The ambivalent power of radioactive elements exerted a great influence on science fiction novelists. This paper will examine some significant works published in Europe, America and Russia during the first decades of the 20th century and their role in the creation of the complex imagery of radioactivity that seized the public imagination long before the invention of the atomic bomb.

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