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Speculative fiction: Literature of political transformation.

机译:投机小说:政治转型文学。

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This project investigates how political agendas of modern technophilic superpowers are influenced by speculative fiction. This phenomenon is explored primarily within the domain of post-World War II American literature and policy. In order to ensure that the results are not seen solely as artifacts particular to one nation and one epoch, a detailed, comparative analysis of Edwardian British speculative fiction is also conducted.;The inquiry begins by focusing on those narratives most suffused with political significance: texts that portray "future warfare" and its technologies. This limiting criterion also reflects one of the dissertation's primary theses: the relative increase in the political influence of "future war" fictions has paralleled the rise of superpower states and their technophilic ideologies. Records show that there was a profusion of "future war" fiction in late Victorian England, paralleling the British Empire's struggle to convert itself into the first modern superpower. These imaginative Victorian texts were the direct discursive forebears of American "hard" science fiction, a genre which has been increasingly dominated by speculations about advanced military technology and has become an institutionalized part of the nation's research-and-design resource base. By tracing the discursive threads that bind together government, media, and storytellers in both Britain and America, this dissertation proposes to demonstrate the influence of speculative texts upon the perceptions and actions that ultimately transform a society's political agendas and structures.;This investigation of "future war" narratives offers strong evidence, and confirms the precedent, for the further assertion that less technocentric works of speculative fiction may have less obvious, but more profound, influence upon political change. Three canonized examples are analyzed: Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. By virtue of these texts' more generalized epistemological inquiry, and their status as cultural monuments, it is posited that their influence is more lasting than that of technocentric narratives.
机译:该项目研究了投机小说如何影响现代技术超级大国的政治议程。主要在第二次世界大战后的美国文学和政策领域内研究这种现象。为了确保结果不仅仅被视为一个国家和一个时代所特有的文物,还对爱德华七世时代的英国投机小说进行了详细的比较分析;调查首先从那些最具有政治意义的叙述开始:描述“未来战争”及其技术的文章。这一限制标准也反映了论文的主要论点之一:“未来战争”小说在政治影响方面的相对增加与超级大国及其技术意识形态的兴起平行。记录显示,在维多利亚时代晚期的英格兰,充斥着“未来战争”的小说,与此同时,大英帝国为将自己转变成第一个现代超级大国而进行的斗争也与此同时进行。这些富有想象力的维多利亚时代文本是美国“硬”科幻小说直接话语的先驱,这一类型越来越被对先进军事技术的猜测所支配,并已成为美国研究与设计资源基础的一部分。通过追踪将英美两国政府,媒体和讲故事的人联系在一起的话语线索,本论文旨在证明投机文本对最终改变社会政治议程和结构的观念和行动的影响。 “未来战争”的叙述为强有力的论断提供了有力的证据,并证实了这一先例,即进一步断言,以技术为中心的投机小说作品对政治变革的影响可能不那么明显,但影响更大。分析了三个经典的例子:霍桑的《七个山墙的房子》,吐温的亚瑟王朝廷的康涅狄格州洋基队和福克纳的《我躺着死了》。由于这些文本的认识论研究更为笼统,而且它们作为文化古迹的地位也被认为,它们的影响力比以技术为中心的叙述更持久。

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  • 作者

    Gannon, Charles Edward.;

  • 作者单位

    Fordham University.;

  • 授予单位 Fordham University.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Literature English.;Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1998
  • 页码 899 p.
  • 总页数 899
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:48:44

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