American science fiction. The history of the genre
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2007
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Одеський національний університет імені І. І. Мечникова
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The history of any literary tradition - a genre in this case - is complex and
multifaceted. The focus in this article is limited to those events and trends in the
history of American science fiction which seem most germane to the genre
itself. The time history of the genre rangers from the undifferentiated "wonder
stories" of the later 19th century through a mid- twentieth-century zenith of
separation and self-awareness that began to break down by the late 1960s,
mirroring the wider cultural upheavals of that period, and finally concluding
with the cyberpunk sensibility of the early 1980s.
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Записки з романо-германської філології = Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology