Teaching Science Fiction by Women

Donawerth, Jane

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“…Such a view forces us to reorganize our thinking about traditional literary genres. Donawerth (1990) pointed out that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly published Frankenstein in 1818 before the term science fiction was coined in the 1920s and this “was the first novel to center upon a problem of science” and “the ethical question of creating life” (p. 39). Isaac Asimov (1983) seemed to condone such breadth of the field when he defined social science fiction as “that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance upon human beings” (p. 348).…”

Section: Humanistic and Psychological Sf Connections And Beyondmentioning

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Humanistic Themes in Science Fiction: An Interview With David A. Kyle.

Herman¹,

Herman²

2006

The Humanistic Psychologist

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This article reviews how science fiction writers have employed a popular and specialized literary medium in order to offer creative insights into human behavior and social structures. David A. Kyle is introduced to readers as a science fiction writer, publisher, cofounder of Gnome Press, historian of the science fiction field, and an avid promoter of science fiction. Kyle offers candid insights related to how science fiction has encouraged a serious exploration of psychological, philosophical, educational, and sociological questions. His fundamental premise is that science fiction allows us to explore what it means to be human in a technological and scientifically oriented society. The article concludes with a summary of how literary figures, social scientists (psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.), and teachers have also successfully used works of science fiction and literary criticism for various purposes.We wish to take you on a science fiction adventure. First, we will introduce David A. Kyle and allow him in his owns words to share how he envisions the field of science fiction and how psychologists and other scientists can make significant contributions to the field of science fiction. Next, we will attempt to build the case for why psychologists (particularly humanistic-oriented psychologists) and other social scientists have been attracted to the field of science fiction. We invite the reader to watch for themes related to humanistic psychology in David Kyle's background and comments in the next section that will be discussed in the conclusion.

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Section: Humanistic and Psychological Sf Connections And Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%