PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The article examines English language chick lit as a particularly productive environment for the creation of neologisms, arguing that lexical innovation is not incidental but constitutive of the genre’s stylistic and discursive identity. The aim of the study is to explain why chick lit generates a high density of creative neologisms and to identify the genre- and register-specific conditions that foster such innovat…

Reference · Wikidata

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Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a U.S. fantasy and science-fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The first issue was titled The Magazine of Fanta…

Book · DOAB

"In The Contest between B-Genres, the “Space Trilogy” by J.R.R. Tolkien’s friend and colleague C.S. Lewis and the roster of American science fictions that Gotthard Günther selected and glossed for the German readership in 1952 demarcate the ring in which the contestants face off. In carrying out in fiction the joust that Tolkien proclaimed in his manifesto essay “On Fairy-Stories,” Lewis challenged the visions of tr…

Image · DPLA

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