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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?

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Title Sub
A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
Author
Seo-Young Chu
Co-Author
-
Translator
-
Publisher
Harvard university press
Published Year
2011
Country
UNITED STATES (Cambridge)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > English and American literatures

Original Title
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
Romanization of Original
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
Original Language

English(English)

ISBN
9780674059221
Page
-
File Size
441 KB

About the Author

Seo-Young Chu
  • Seo-Young Chu
  • Birth : 1978 ~ -
  • Occupation : Associate Professor, queer Korean American scholar, poet, author
  • First Name : Seo-Young
  • Family Name : Chu
  • Korean Name : Seo-Young Chu
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
About the Original Work
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
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  • English(English)

In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of "high-intensity realism" capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, "realist" modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature.