Sökning: "Darko Suvin"
Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Darko Suvin.
1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. LÄS MER
2. Mord i framtidslandet : Samhällskritiken i Per Wahlöös framtidsromaner
Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudierSammanfattning : This paper investigates the science fiction novels of Swedish crime writer Per Wahlöö, most famous for his collaboration with his writing partner Maj Sjöwall on the ten Martin Beck mysteries. During two important years, 1964 and 1968, Wahlöö wrote the novels Murder On the 31st Floor and The Steel Spring, set in a near future land ruled by a social fascist power structure where political opposition is eradicated. LÄS MER