ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Jean Baudrillard, Utopian And Dystopian Fiction, Simulacrum
Document Summary
Historical and cultural way to define science fiction. Scientific fiction scientifiction science fiction (hugo gernsback, 1920s) credited with making this into a term. Process in evolution of settling upon the term itself. But then coined science fiction in his magazine science wonder stories in 1929. When the rival magazine astounding stories changed its name to astounding science- Fiction in 1938, the subculture more or less consolidated around the term. roger. Science fiction appears in the title, most important in the magazine of publishing. Subculture more or less consolidated around the term. Label came in at a particular time in a response to social and cultural condition. Development of this new genre this literature that requires a new label. Fiction, term that identifies on the one hand of ideological foundations of a cultural context of this genre. Science (specific kind of practice, specific ideological discourse and language, imperial and logical experience of the world. )
