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excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance
ex. Victor Frankenstein
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a comic critic of important public issues, usually works through repitition
ex. Swift/De Bergerac |
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| a popular story type of the day satired by Swift and De Bergerac |
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| a narrative, or cause and affect story, that has a beginning, middle, and end |
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| a branch of literature that does not limit itself to the known world |
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| a form of reasoning through the scientific method (inductive) |
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| defined by rationality, rationality seperates Science Fiction from Fantasy |
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| the first theory that said everything is made up of atoms |
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something that has the appearence of truth
ex. At The Mountains of Madness being written in the style of actual explorers of the time |
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arose during the industrial revolution and valued self-freedom
ex. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein |
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a fatal flaw that defines a Greek tragedy, causes the character's fall
(the pride, hubris of Victor Frankenstein) |
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a style of writing which has a narrator telling someone elses story and possibly has another story in that
ex. Frankenstein (used to call into question the reliability of the narrator), The Time Machine |
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| the study of an electric current through a living body, studied by Victor Frankenstein to produce The Creature |
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an experiences that produces awe instead of pleasure through it's disorderly nature, the sublime impresses you with a sense of power and not wonder
ex. the mountains in At The Mountains of Madness |
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a blank slate, refers to the theory of John Locke that the mind of a person is initially completely blank and accumulates ideas and morals through the world
ex. The Creature in Frankenstein |
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because all matter as we know it comes out of the nebula, then everything is intelligent
ex. the suns being concious in Star Maker |
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| magazine printed on cheap pulp paper that targeted middle and lower classes, sci fi's were the most popular pulps (1920-1940, period where pulps were most popular) |
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science funded by large institutions and involved groups of scientists working in teams
ex. the expedition to Antartica in At The Mountains of Madness |
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giving something that is human to non humans such as animals, plants, robots, etc.
ex. The City having different senses that awaken to detect intruders |
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| the study of knowledge, specifically the limitations of knowledge |
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backwards evolution
ex. in The Time Machine how both the Elois and Morlocks are evolved from human, but neither of them are as intelligent |
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| writing material (such as a tablet or parchment) which has been scraped over to be written on again |
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x axis=a while y axis=a^2
ex. Star Maker is structured where each level of community grows exponentially |
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| a work using the scientific method will be structured as such: observation, hypothesis, experimentation or further observation, and finally a new hypothesis |
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a newly coined word or phrase
ex. the term "time machine" is a common plot device used in The Time Machine, but was originally thought up and coined by H.G. Wells |
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| desire to pry into things that are mostly kept private |
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| 1940-1965, a period where science fiction literature was at its height, most works were short stories released in magazines and then compiled into small trade paperbacks called "composite novels" |
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| paperbacks during the golden age that were made up of many short stories that were often times written together in a single narrative |
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| a work making a reference to itself, reminding you that it is infact only fiction |
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an artistic work that imitates another style or work.
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