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The DePauw University Archives and Special Collections serves as the repository of the United Methodist Church in Indiana. The guides below will help aid research on the history of the United ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation have as its motto the words of a Frenchman, Pierre Bertaux: At one time it was hoped that ...

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Jeffrey McCall is an established media critic with national credentials. He has written numerous op-eds that have been published in newspapers around the country. He is quoted frequently as a media ...

When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

When Ken Liu became the second Chinese-American after Ted Chiang to win major sf awards in the United States, his fans in China were excited. 1 Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) won the Nebula Award ...

In the Afterword to "The Word for World is Forest" (WWF) Le Guin remarks that writing this story was "like taking dictation from a boss with ulcers. What I wanted to write about was the forest and the ...

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Discussions of the relationship between science fiction and myth usually begin to break down as soon as the question of basic definitions arises. There is little critical agreement as to the meaning ...

1. A. E. Van Vogt (Somewhere Leslie Fiedler said that for criticism of SF to be valid, it must be able to deal with Van Vogt. For once he was right. Very influential—if flawed—writer.) 2. Alfred ...