首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
1 Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the covers of some of the old pulp magazines; the Bug-eyed Mons
1 Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the covers of some of the old pulp magazines; the Bug-eyed Mons
admin
2014-06-02
60
问题
1 Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the covers of some of the old pulp magazines; the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every trait and feature that most people find repulsive, is about to grab, and presumably ravish, a sweet, blonde, curvaceous, scantily-clad Earth girl. This is unfortunate because it demeans and degrades a worthwhile and even important literary endeavor. In contrast to this unwarranted stereotype, science fiction rarely emphasizes sex, and when it does, it is more discreet than other contemporary fiction. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe. Science fiction is a literature of change and a literature of the future, and while it would be foolish to claim that science fiction is a major literary genre at this time, the aspects of human life that it considers make it well worth reading and studying—for no other literary form does quite the same things.
2 The question is: what is science fiction? And the answer must be, unfortunately, that there have been few attempts to consider this question at any length or with much seriousness; it may well be that science fiction will resist any comprehensive definition of its characteristics. To say this, however, does not mean that there are no ways of defining it nor that various facets of its totality cannot be clarified. To begin, the following definition should be helpful: science fiction is a literary sub-genre which postulates a change (for human beings) from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to conclusion. Although this definition will necessarily be modified and expanded, and probably changed, in the course of this exploration, it covers much of the basic groundwork and provides a point of departure.
3 This first point—that science fiction is a literary sub-genre—is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked or ignored in most discussions of science fiction. Specifically, science fiction is either a short story or a novel. There are only a few dramas which could be called science fiction, with Karel Capek’s RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) being the only one that is well known; the body of poetry that might be labeled science fiction is only slightly larger. To say that science fiction is a sub-genre of prose fiction is to say that it has all the basic characteristics and serves the same basic functions in much the same way as prose fiction in general—that is, it shares a great deal with all other novels and short stories.
4 Everything that can be said about prose fiction, in general, applies to science fiction. Every piece of science fiction, whether short story or novel, must have a narrator, a story, a plot, a setting, characters, language, and theme. And like any prose, the themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man’s nature and experience in relation to the world around him. Themes in science fiction are constructed and presented in exactly the same ways that themes are dealt with in any other kind of fiction. They are the result of a particular combination of narrator, story, plot, character, setting, and language. In short, the reasons for reading and enjoying science fiction, and the ways of studying and analyzing it, are basically the same as they would be for any other story or novel.
The view of science fiction encouraged by pulp magazines, which may be wrong, is nevertheless__________.
选项
A、popular
B、elegant
C、fashionable
D、deranged
答案
A
解析
本题为细节理解题。据第1段第1句可确定。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/E8pO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Whytheinductiveandmathematicalsciences,aftertheirfirstrapiddevelopmentattheculminationofGreekcivilization,advan
Nowadayswiththeeconomicreformgoing.furtherinChina,thereisincreasedpressurethatpeoplehavetoface.Whatdoyouthi
Whichofthefollowingregionsintheworldwillwitnessthesharpestdropinlifeexpectancy?
EffectiveAssignmentsUsingLibraryandInternetResourcesFacultymemberscanfacilitatestudents’developmentasseekersa
A、waskilledinanearthquakeB、waskilledinahelicoptercrashonFridayC、wasamongthe9deadD、survivedthecrashC
______takesLondonasthesettinginmostofhisnovels.
MikeTysonwasputinprisonlastAugustbecausehe
Americancultureisdefinedbyrathergradualmovementsfromonestageofsocializationtothenext.Thelifelongsocialization
Iknownowthatthemanwhosatwithmeontheoldwoodenstairsthathotsummernightoverthirty-fiveyearsagowasnotatall
我直到几十年以后,才体会到云彩更多,霞光才愈美丽。从云翳中外露的霞光,才是璀璨多彩的。生命中不是只有快乐,也不是只有痛苦,快乐和痛苦是相生相成,互相衬托的。快乐是一抹微云,痛苦是压城的乌云,这不同的云彩,在你生命的天边重叠着,在“夕阳无
随机试题
MostAsian-Americanstudentsowetheirsuccesstotheinfluenceofparentswhoaredeterminedthattheirchildrentakefulladva
阻塞性肺气肿病人强调低流量吸氧的理由主要是
提示肠麻痹的主要指征是()。
采用工程量清单方式招标,投标人投标报价的工作内容有()
关于股指期权的说法,正确的是()。
股份有限公司的设立过程中,股份有限公司的发起人应当承担的责任不包括()。
下列成本费用中,一般属于存货变动储存成本的有()。
公安后勤保障工作主要包括财务保障、装备保障、生活保障、信息保障。()
A、Inafoodstore.B、Inthepostoffice.C、Inthepoliceoffice.A
WhatdidBilladviseTomtodo?BilladvisedTomnotto______.
最新回复
(
0
)