studying the ways authors use history in their fiction
Could you work sci-fi/fantasy into that, as well? As in, what are they trying to say/what can we learn about the author's own period by setting something in the future/alternative world, especially in the case of books written in the past (ie, Jules Verne)? Or is that not the angle you're interested in on the sci-fi/fantasy side of things?
And most importantly, how dizzy did that paragraph just make you? 'cause I'm not even sure I understood it... ;)
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:03 am (UTC)Could you work sci-fi/fantasy into that, as well? As in, what are they trying to say/what can we learn about the author's own period by setting something in the future/alternative world, especially in the case of books written in the past (ie, Jules Verne)? Or is that not the angle you're interested in on the sci-fi/fantasy side of things?
And most importantly, how dizzy did that paragraph just make you? 'cause I'm not even sure I understood it... ;)