Search for dissertations about: "science fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the words science fiction.

  2. 1. Conflicting Times : Multiple Temporalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

    Author : Erik Mo Welin; Joakim Enwall; Hua Li; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Science fiction; Chinese literature; Temporality; Time travel; Alternate history; Apocalypse; Chronopolitics; Sinologi; Sinology;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the intersection of temporality and politics in contemporary Chinese science fiction. Building on previous research on Chinese science fiction, science fiction studies, as well as narrative theory and historical theory, the investigation focuses on eight key texts written by the writers Han Song, Liu Cixin, and Baoshu. READ MORE

  4. 2. Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction : The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films

    Author : Henriette Cederlöf; Anna Ljunggren; Yvonne Howell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky; science fiction; heterotopia; paradigm shift; Soviet culture; 1970s; Gothic; adaptation; Stalker; Roadside Picnic; Dead Mountaineer s Hotel; Arkadij Strugatskij; Boris Strugatskij; paradigmskifte; science fiction; heterotopi; Sovjetunionen; 1970-talet; adaption; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with how science fiction reflects the shift in cultural paradigms that occurred in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and the 1970s. Interest was displaced from the rational to the irrational, from a scientific-technologically oriented optimism about the future to art, religion, philosophy and metaphysics. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Woke Franchise : Representing and Co-opting Resistance in Young Adult, Superhero, and Speculative Fiction

    Author : Amélie Hurkens; David Watson; Ashleigh Harris; Paul Crosthwaite; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; identity politics; the publishing industry; popular literary culture; woke capitalism; neoliberalism; racial capitalism; the franchise; blockbusters; awards; YA fiction; superhero fiction; comic books; speculative fiction; science fiction and fantasy; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : In the last decade, U.S. popular literary culture has been under increasing pressure to include more racially and other marginalized groups. READ MORE

  6. 4. Estranging Cognition : Feminist Science Fiction and the Borders of Reason

    Author : Jenny Bonnevier; Rolf Lundén; Jane Donawerth; Brian Attebery; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; science fiction; feminist theory; epistemology; Ursula Le Guin; Suzy McKee Charnas; Joanna Russ; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study explores the intersections of three different fields: feminism, science fiction, and epistemology. It argues that as a genre, science fiction is dependent on epistemological discourses that have their roots in the stories and self-images of modern science. READ MORE

  7. 5. Unleashing Science Popularisation: Studies on Science as Popular Culture

    Author : Andreas Gunnarsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; science popularisation; popular culture; public understanding of science; science and the media;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to broaden the concept of science popularisation. It argues that the conventional view of popularisation as the public communication of appropriately simplified versions of established facts to lay audiences fails to capture the multifaceted nature of popularisation practices through which science and popular culture are recombined. READ MORE