Science Fiction versus Fantasy: A Semantic Categorization and its Contribution to Distinguishing Two Literary Genres

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-221
Author(s):  
Vannina Goossens ◽  
Clémence Jacquot ◽  
Susanne Dyka
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Semantic Categorization

scholarly journals Phraseological motifs for Distinguishing Between Literary Genres. A Case Study on the Motifs of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication

Kalbotyra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 160-181
Author(s):  
Iva Novakova
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Linguistic Units

The present paper is based on the assumption that the language of the novel is characterized by a statistically relevant overrepresentation of certain linguistic units (e.g. lexemes, key words, collocations and colligations, Siepmann 2015). First steps towards checking the validity of this hypothesis had been undertaken in pioneering works in the 1990s/2000s (e.g. Stubbs & Barth 2003). These studies were however limited by the small size of their (exclusively English) corpora. The present study explores the role of some patterns (phraseological motifs) in distinguishing French literary subgenres. It also proposes a case study of some motifs related to the verbal (dire avec sourire ‘to say with a smile’) and non-verbal communication (adresser un sourire ‘to send a smile’). Unlike traditional corpus-stylistic analyses, which frequently focus on the style of a single author, our corpus-driven approach identifies lexico-syntactic constructions in literary genres which are automatically extracted from the corpora.The main purpose is to show the relevance of the notion of phraseological motif (Legallois 2012; Longrée & Mellet 2013; Novakova & Siepmann 2020) for the distinction of literary subgenres. Linking form and meaning, these ‘multidimensional units’ fulfil pragmatic as well as discursive functions.The data has been extracted from large French corpora of the PhraseoRom research project https://phraseorom.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr. They are accessible on http://phraseotext.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/phraseobase/index.html and contain 1000 novels (published from the 1950s to the present), partitioned into six sub-corpora: general literature (GEN), crime fiction (CRIM), romances (ROM), historical novels (HIST), science fiction (SF) and fantasy (FY).The results of our study reveal some unexpected differences between the literary subgenres: e.g. the motif dire d’une voix ‘to say in a voice’ in HIST compared to GEN. In FY, expressions of verbal communication are related to shouting and screaming. Expressions related to the non-verbal communication (prendre dans ses bras ‘to take in one’s arms’) are specific to ROM, where body language is overrepresented. In SF, there is a very limited number of these types of expressions. More generally, the motifs provide the link between the micro level (phraseological recurrences) and the macro level (the fictional script).

scholarly journals The Yugoslav imaginary of Marko Vidojkovic in the novel "E baš vam hvala"

Panoptikum ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 275-285
Author(s):  
Ewelina Chacia
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Alternative Scenario

Although it has not formally existed for over thirty years, Yugoslavia continues to be an attractive subject for literature. Against two dominant currents of prose orbiting the SFRY – the settlement and nostalgic one, Marko Vidojkovic’s novel E baš vam hvala stands out with its attempt to answer the question: what would Yugoslavia be like in 21st century if it had not fallen apart. In this article this alternative scenario is considered in the context of close literary genres: science fiction and alternative histories.

scholarly journals Order and Chaos in Young Adult Science Fiction: A Critical Stylistic Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suroor Yaseen Mustafa ◽  
Huda Hadi Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Brighter Future

With the challenges and revolutionary changes in the world, it is essential that the sources of social power direct the communities towards the right path that leads to a brighter future, especially when it comes to young adults. Young adults represent a critical social group that needs special attention. Therefore, the present paper tackles one of the fascinating literary genres to young adults; young adult science fiction. The paper attempts to investigate how the social themes of order and chaos are delivered to young adults in young adult science fiction through conducting a critical stylistic analysis of certain extracts in selected young adult science fiction novels. The linguistic tool employed for the critical stylistic analysis is negation for its prevalent use in the discourse, in general, and for its textual effectiveness in rendering hidden ideologies, whether intended or unconscious.K

scholarly journals Cognitive Aspects of Reception of Popular Literary Genres and Their Historical Variability

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-27
Author(s):  
Artem A. Zubov
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Cognitive Poetics ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fictional Space

In the article, the author investigates connections between historical variability of literary genres and readers’ ability to recognize them. Following J.-M. Schaeffer, the author understands genre as a semiotic sign constituted of a “generic name” and “generic notion.” The author interprets Schaeffer’s theory from the perspective of cognitive poetics and treats genres as “prototypes.” Their nature is both individual and collective—it derives from a person’s individual experience and skills of aesthetic reception, but also from social imaginary and stereotypes. The author focuses on a noncanonical genre of popular literature—science fiction—and argues that social and receptive aspects of the genre are interconnected. In the final part, the author analyses the image of “generation starship” in science fiction and concludes that changes of poetic techniques used to create fictional space of science-fictional starships—which has no correlation with readers’ empirical surroundings—formed a new “reading paradigm”, i.e., addressed mechanisms of reception that were not relevant previously in the history of the genre.

scholarly journals Edgar Allan Poe: A Source for Miriam Allen Deford

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Maria Alice Ribeiro Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Family ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Point Of Departure

The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on North American culture and literature is still a subject of debate in contemporary literary theory. However, Poe’s creative legacy regarding the writings of Miriam Allen Deford remains neglected by the literary critics. Deford’s fiction explored a set of literary genres, such as biography, science fiction, crime and detective short stories. Taking these premises as a point of departure, this article aims to identify similarities between “A Death in the Family” and some of Poe’s works. Drawing on studies by J. T. Irwin, James M. Hutchisson and others, the objective of this paper is to analyze passages from Deford’s tale in comparison with the poetry and fictional prose of Poe. The analysis suggests that Deford’s horror short story “A Death in the Family,” published in 1961, was mostly inspired by Poe’s gothic tales, detective stories, and poems.

scholarly journals A CONVERGENCE OF GENRES: GOTHIC AND SCIENCE FICTION IN FRANKENSTEIN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
Ismael Bernardo Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Creation

This article aims to analyze the novel Frankenstein, by Mary W. Shelley, from a perspective of literary genres. The work is believed to manifest both traits of the Gothic genre––due to its structure and common themes to the period it was published––and of what would in future be called the Science fiction genre. Those elements are here observed, in the novel as well as in the context of its creation. In this sense, there is a convergence of genres taking place, albeit one of them is in its nascent form: Shelley's novel antecipate a scientific interest that would be specified in later fiction, being derived from her legacy. Tzvetan Todorov's perspective is considered, inasmuch as he defends the presence of multiple genres inside a work of fiction, as well as the creation of new literary genres from other, pre-existent, ones. It is concluded that the novel manifests enough elements to comprise both the genres here discussed, with its common and different traits.

Daína Chaviano’s Science-Fiction Oeuvre

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Political Statement ◽  
Silvina Ocampo ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Daina Chaviano

Daína Chaviano is the most accomplished author of science fiction during the 1980s and 1990s in Cuba. This essay demonstrate that her seemingly soft and new-wavish literary style was in fact a political statement against the communist regime´s policy of closing the borders to the outside world, and a call to put an end to all sorts of frontiers among people, and even between literary genres. But far from being unique and radical in her forms, Chaviano is part of a trend in science fiction that affected both contemporary Cuban authors of the fantastic (Alberto Serret, Chely Lima, Gina Picart, Félix Lizárraga), and other authors in Latin America and Spain (Angélica Gorodischer, Silvina Ocampo, Bioy Casares, Eliá Barceló). Chaviano mixed space travel and exploration with fantastic figures such as dragons and unicorns, science with magic, and created characters who were not necessarily technologically savvy. A perfect example is her most relevant text, the internationally acclaimed 1998 novel and the main focus of this essay, Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre [Fables of an extraterrestrial grandmother], in which the grandmother states that “la ciencia es una magia que ha encontrado respuestas” [science is magic that has found answers]. Daína Chaviano is perhaps the most relevant representative of the “Caribbean new wave style” and one of the most important authors in contemporary letters written in Spanish.

scholarly journals Cognitive Aspects of Reception of Popular Literary Genres and Their Historical Variability

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-27
Author(s):  
Artem A. Zubov
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Cognitive Poetics ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fictional Space

In the article, the author investigates connections between historical variability of literary genres and readers’ ability to recognize them. Following J.-M. Schaeffer, the author understands genre as a semiotic sign constituted of a “generic name” and “generic notion.” The author interprets Schaeffer’s theory from the perspective of cognitive poetics and treats genres as “prototypes.” Their nature is both individual and collective—it derives from a person’s individual experience and skills of aesthetic reception, but also from social imaginary and stereotypes. The author focuses on a noncanonical genre of popular literature—science fiction—and argues that social and receptive aspects of the genre are interconnected. In the final part, the author analyses the image of “generation starship” in science fiction and concludes that changes of poetic techniques used to create fictional space of science-fictional starships—which has no correlation with readers’ empirical surroundings—formed a new “reading paradigm”, i.e., addressed mechanisms of reception that were not relevant previously in the history of the genre.

scholarly journals Margaret Atwood’s Postcolonial and Postmodern Feminist Novels with Psychological and Mythic Influences: The Archetypal Analysis of the Novel Surfacing

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Andrejka Obidič
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Archetypal Analysis ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The North ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Grail Romances

The paper analyzes Margaret Atwood’s postcolonial and postmodern feminist novels from the psychological perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes and from the perspective of Robert Graves’s mythological figures of the triple goddess presented in his work The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1997). In this regard, the paper focuses on the mythic and psychological roles embodied and played by Atwood’s victimized female protagonists who actively seek their identity and professional self-realization on their path towards personal evolution in the North American patriarchal society of the twentieth century. Thus, they are no longer passive as female characters of the nineteenth-century colonial novels which are centered on the male hero and his colonial adventures. In her postcolonial and postmodern feminist novels, Atwood further introduces elements of folk tales, fairy tales, legends, myths and revives different literary genres, such as a detective story, a crime and historical novel, a gothic romance, a comedy, science fiction, etc. Moreover, she often abuses the conventions of the existing genre and mixes several genres in the same narrative. For instance, her narrative The Penelopiad (2005) is a genre-hybrid novella in which she parodies the Grecian myth of the adventurer Odysseus and his faithful wife Penelope by subverting Homer’s serious epic poem into a witty satire. In addition, the last part of the paper analyzes the author’s cult novel Surfacing (1972 (1984)) according to Joseph Campbell’s and Northrop Frye’s archetypal/myth criticism and it demonstrates that Atwood revises the biblical myth of the hero’s quest and the idealized world of medieval grail romances from the ironic prospective of the twentieth century, as it is typical of postmodernism.

Motives for Social Isolation Following a Negative Emotional Episode

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
Gérald Delelis ◽  
Véronique Christophe
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Affiliation ◽  
Semantic Categorization ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Cognitive Regulation ◽  
Emotional Event ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Emotional Events

Abstract. After experiencing an emotional event, people either seek out others’ presence (social affiliation) or avoid others’ presence (social isolation). The determinants and effects of social affiliation are now well-known, but social psychologists have not yet thoroughly studied social isolation. This study aims to ascertain which motives and corresponding regulation strategies participants report for social isolation following negative emotional events. A group of 96 participants retrieved from memory an actual negative event that led them to temporarily socially isolate themselves and freely listed up to 10 motives for social isolation. Through semantic categorization of the 423 motives reported by the participants, we found that “cognitive clarification” and “keeping one’s distance” – that is, the need for cognitive regulation and the refusal of socioaffective regulation, respectively – were the most commonly and quickly reported motives for social isolation. We discuss the findings in terms of ideas for future studies aimed at clarifying the role of social isolation in health situations.

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