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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku A Generic Study of The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Námsstig: 
  • Bakkalár
Leiðbeinandi: 
Útdráttur: 
  • Útdráttur er á ensku

    The following essay attempts a surface exploration both the genre of science fiction and Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Earth. Its main purpose surrounds the question of whether Tevis’ novel is in fact a science fiction novel, and if so, why it can be classified as such. To begin with there is a brief overview of the genre’s history, where certain landmark works are highlighted as structural foundations of science fiction lineage. The question of what constitutes science fiction will be discussed and explored in some depth to establish a ground from which the essay’s questions can be answered. Different definitions of the genre are discussed in some detail and used to establish a basis from where a conclusion is drawn from. There is much debate that surrounds the issue of science fiction. Ever since its coinage in the early 20th century the genre has spawned many sub-genres. It is a well documented fact that no consensus has been reach about neither the origin of science fiction nor its proper definition. The essay will not attempt to solve those pending issues, but rather broadly survey this literary field and examine what science fiction really is, and hopefully reach a satisfying conclusion to the question of what Walter Tevis’ novel is in terms of generic classification. This will not be a detailed or an extensive analysis but rather a surface exploration of both genre and novel.

Samþykkt: 
  • 21.1.2013
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/13847


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