Journal article
On Science Fiction as a separate field
- Abstract:
- It is surprising to see what kinds of disciplinary boundaries a field so inherently interdisciplinary as literature and science relies on. Ever since beginning my forays into the field four years ago, I have noticed an often deliberate lack of engagement with science fiction and its critics. Indeed, it came as a complete surprise to me that science fiction studies is a different field from ours. Interdisciplinarity is what drew me to the study of literature and science in the first place, as this research field offered me the opportunity to cross what I thought was perhaps the largest possible disciplinary gap, between quantum physics and literature. Literature for me includes science fiction. And yet, in this field we study science and we study fiction, but very few of us study science fiction.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.12929/jls.10.1.07
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- Publisher:
- University of Westminster
- Journal:
- Journal of Literature and Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 32-36
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-01
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1754-646X
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2017-07-18
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- Dihal, K
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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