Author: Allison Monahan
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668023115
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, California State University, Fullerton, course: Science Fiction Literature, language: English, abstract: “There is no traced-out path to lead man to his salvation; he must constantly invent his own path (Vasey).” With this freedom comes immense fear— fear of choices, of the consequences of those choices. Perhaps worse than this, is the thought of no consequence at all. Not because of proper decision-making or behavior, but simply because the consequence would be irrelevant. In the end, it mattered not what anyone did—it all just ends. Existentialist philosophy begs these kinds of questions; many of which play directly into the newly bled together works or horror and science fiction. “Blood Music” by Greg Bear is a terrifying work of art that incorporates existentialist theory into its story to contemplate human existence, or the potential lack thereof, and the implications of a genre composed of both science or speculative fiction and horror.
Author: Ryan Lizardi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793647364
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society’s conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most poignantly, Ryan Lizardi argues, are the ways in which a recent cluster of science fiction media, including Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), Legion (2017-2019), Westworld (2016-present), Soma (2015), and Death Standing (2019), among others, present a vision of the future that is inextricably tied to an exploration of humanity that is more contemplative and comparative than traditional science fiction. The combination of the existential nature of this current trend in science fiction with the genre’s ability to manifest these abstract concepts in a generic environment that is historically focused on new frontiers and ideas creates a powerful set of media texts that ask audiences to contemplate what it means to exist, think, and connect as human beings. Scholars of media studies, film studies, television studies, genre studies, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Jack R. Ernest
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780244983451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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This collection of short stories contains six stories that revolve around science-fiction and existential themes. In one story, the unnamed narrator who lives in solitude in the wilderness, discusses his life of seclusion. In another story, a planet called Elysium is the last refuge of mankind. The stories encompass themes of alienation and existentialism.
Author: Michele K. Langford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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H. G. Wells's novel "Star Begotten," tells the story of a group of men who speculate on the possibility of Martians genetically modifying the human race to replace their dying planet. The story's protagonist, Joseph Davis, a popular history author, is overcome with fear that he and his family have already been exposed and are beginning to change.
Author: Norman Joseph Lynedoch Pringle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Existentialism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Gordon Sean Mcwhorter
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781478102786
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Perpetual Existentialism is a book of fiction and truth that leads down the rabbit hole of multiple stories to help those who know death is near.
Author: Colin Stanley
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846946689
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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In May 1956, aged just 24, Colin Wilson achieved success and overnight fame with his philosophical study of alienation and transcendence in modern literature and thought, The Outsider. Fifty-four years on, and never out of print in English, the book is still widely read and discussed, having been translated into over thirty languages. In a remarkably prolific career, Wilson, a true polymath, has since written over 170 titles: novels, plays and non-fiction on a variety of subjects. This volume brings together twenty essays by scholars of Colin Wilson's work worldwide and is published in his honour to mark the author's 80th birthday. Each contributor has provided an essay on their favourite Wilson book (or the one they consider to be the most significant). The result is a varied and stimulating assessment of Wilson's writings on philosophy, psychology, literature, criminology and the occult with critical appraisals of four of his most thought-provoking novels. Altogether a fitting tribute to a writer
Author: Benjamin Pinkel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875162102
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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