ENG 503 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tourist Trap, Arkady And Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
7 Apr 2016
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Takes 5 forms: lavish praise for the strugatsky brothers: as the most important writers of sci fi in the mid late 20th century anywhere, especially in ussr, near endless commentary on the strugatsky"s supposed dissident politics. The poetics of censorship: allegory as a form and ideology in the novels of arkady and boris. One of the social functions of sci fi is to keep the discussion of possibilities going and not to shut that discussion down. Zone and make sense of what it means. Also notable for its characterization: we remember red, guta, the monkey, dr. dillan as characters in a plight and world we find interesting. 20th century sci fi begins with a flourish in the post revolutionary period with: yvggeny zamyatin"s we 1921; an influence on huxley and orwell. There"s a brief surge of interest and then it dies away.
