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The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune
Published 2023-11-01“…This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of fantasy and science fiction, such as world-building, immersion, sensationalism, terrain navigation, non-modern epistemologies, oneiric possession, geological actants, dragon-like giant sandworms, and human-eating birds. …”
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Travelling to the described present: mago-space in the Strugatskys’ Monday starts on Saturday
Published 2021-10-01“… Fantasy and science fiction genres extensively use imaginary settings and locations different from realistic ones but striving to look real. …”
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Lexical and syntactic markers of small literary genres
Published 2021-12-01“…The article also outlines the constructional portraits of four small genres, i.e. detective stories, romance novels, fantasy, and science fiction. It is shown that the topics, the structure of the narrative, the authors’ use of cliches, the way how the text follows the literary trends aff ect not only the choice of vocabulary, but also the constructional potential of the verb. …”
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