ENG 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Nature, H. G. Wells, Coevolution
22 Jan 2018
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The left hand of darkness: topics and terms. Science fiction and mrs. brown: essay by le guin in response to essay by virginia woolf, uses essay as map as how sci-fi can improve itself and become artform. Changes of focalization between ai genly and estraven: see their interiority, process of communication, show us how communication works. Face-to-face: immediacy and difference: old medium, even in most intimate situation contains blind spots, we still have to work at communication. Le guin part of time that seeks to elevate the genre of science fiction. Sci-fi always had ideas behind it, but not considered high literature. Shifts parameters seeing through gender, technology always progressing. Sci-fi known for describing strange worlds, environment, but usually falls flat to representation of human beings. Le guin: polar opposite mrs. brown and sci-fi, science fiction clich s without saying names (star trek, shows us how familiar these sci-fi references are.
