ENG237H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simulacrum, Computer Security, Peter Frohmader
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Sf is distinguished by the narrative dominance or hegemony of a ctional novum (novelty, innovation), validated by cognitive logic . The novum is hegemonic so central and signi cant that it determines the whole narrative logic . The ideal object for the suvinian novum is a text that treats social lifeanthropologically. It is also a text highly uni ed aesthetically, whose images, tropes, and style all re ect one another with tight coherence . The logical coherence and consistency of the novum is the single greatest source of its aesthetic and ethical power . Every important aspect of sf will be salubriously rational . It is cognitive, i. e. rational, scienti c, and plausible. Affects all aspects of the world in the story. Affects all aspects of the narrative, including the reader"s response. It creates cognitive estrangement in the story. Cognitive estrangement is what sf does, and the novum is how it does this.
