EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.3828/extr.2018.8
Andrew M. Butler
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EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-04-19DOI: 10.3828/extr.2018.5
S. Ekman
{"title":"Entering a Fantasy World through Its Map","authors":"S. Ekman","doi":"10.3828/extr.2018.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2018.5","url":null,"abstract":"This essay demonstrates how we can gain critical insights into a fantasy world by reading its accompanying map, using Ben McSweeney’s map from Brandon Sanderson’s The Rithmatist as an example. An a...","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"59 1","pages":"71-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/extr.2018.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46880511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-04-19DOI: 10.3828/EXTR.2018.3
Seán McCorry
{"title":"Literacy, Bêtise, and the Production of Species Difference in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451","authors":"Seán McCorry","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2018.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2018.3","url":null,"abstract":"Postwar literature (and postwar SF in particular) is marked by a concern that emerging techno-cultural developments would undermine the sovereignty of the humanist subject. The mass production of culture and an increasing dependency on technologies were seen as inimical to individualism, literary culture, and human agency. In the same period, new research into the cognitive and behavioural capacities of nonhuman animals put further pressure on the exceptional status of the humanist subject. Drawing on recent work in posthumanist theory and animal studies, I produce a new reading of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in the light of this twofold crisis of human exceptionalism. I claim that Bradbury’s novel typifies a broader tendency in postwar culture to use animal life as a metric by which to gauge the supposed technological attenuation of subjectivity, and I explore how his pessimistic diagnosis of the emergent mass culture discovers a surprising conjuncture of human, animal, and technology in the postwar moment.","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"59 1","pages":"25-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/EXTR.2018.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42167514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.3828/extr.2018.4
A. Hageman
{"title":"\"The Key to This Immense Metallized Landscape\": Reading J. G. Ballard's Crash as an Ecological Structure of Feeling","authors":"A. Hageman","doi":"10.3828/extr.2018.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2018.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"59 1","pages":"47-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/extr.2018.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70510510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-04-01DOI: 10.3828/EXTR.2018.2
Andrew Milner, J. Burgmann
{"title":"A Short Pre-History of Climate Fiction","authors":"Andrew Milner, J. Burgmann","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2018.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2018.2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper argues that contemporary climate fiction is a subgenre of sf rather than a distinct and separate genre for two main reasons: first, because its texts and practitioners relate primarily to...","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"59 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/EXTR.2018.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43431961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.3828/extr.2018.16
Phillip R. Polefrone
{"title":"Ecology without Us: Ecological Succession and History in Earth Abides","authors":"Phillip R. Polefrone","doi":"10.3828/extr.2018.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2018.16","url":null,"abstract":"George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides (1949) is a classic American post-apocalypse novel, but it is also a thought experiment examining humanity’s changing role on Earth that closely reflects the shift ...","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"59 1","pages":"255-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70510052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.3828/extr.2018.14
C. Abbott
{"title":"Islandia: Agrarian Society Meets Global Capitalism","authors":"C. Abbott","doi":"10.3828/extr.2018.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2018.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"59 1","pages":"213-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70509981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.3828/EXTR.2017.11
L. Swanstrom
{"title":"Nora Unchained and “Margo Rising”","authors":"L. Swanstrom","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2017.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2017.11","url":null,"abstract":"From 1983 to 2003 Francine Pascal’s hugely successful book series Sweet Valley High dominated the young adult publishing market. For the first decade of its life, Sweet Valley’s narrative form was as conventional as the politics it portrayed, but in 1993, with the publication of its one hundredth book, something changed. In this peculiar novel, SVH #100, The Evil Twin, as well as its 1995 sequel, SVH Magna Edition #6, Return of the Evil Twin, the franchise veered from its generic conventions and tried something new—or, more accurately, tried something equally cliched and formulaic but imported from a different genre, i.e., horror. This essay argues that the shift from romance to horror illuminates the troubling cultural and political assumptions that underpin the teenage romance and, as a consequence, threatens—and briefly manages—to subvert them.","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"181-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/EXTR.2017.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49406403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXTRAPOLATIONPub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.3828/EXTR.2017.14
R. Vu
{"title":"Fantasy After Representation","authors":"R. Vu","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2017.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2017.14","url":null,"abstract":"My essay is premised on the observation that while canonical theories of fantastic genre fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror) proposed by critics such as Tzetvan Todorov and Darko Suvin center on epistemic aporia, most recent examples in popular culture reject fundamental difference, alterity, and the unknown in favor of postmodern play within a limited set of generic conventions. I argue that today, tabletop roleplaying game systems (RPGs) provide a superior hermeneutic for understanding how the fantasy genre operates in mass culture than does traditional genre theory. After providing a brief overview of the historical development of fantasy gaming out of wargaming and mass market fantasy literature in the 1970s, I show how RPGs formalized fantasy’s generic tropes into a modular system that enabled participants to produce fictions across and between genres. Through a reading of Poul Anderson’s use of the “multiverse” trope in his novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, the notion that reality consists ...","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"273-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/EXTR.2017.14","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42797274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}