Carl D Malmgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 962307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl D Malmgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl D |
| FAMILY NAME | Malmgren |
| SIGNATURE | MALMGREN C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Art and Life in Edith Wharton's "The Muse's Tragedy
By subjecting the words in the title to a closer scrutiny and examining the process of doubling in the story’s plot, this essay explores Edith Wharton’s interest in the relation between art and life in the modern world
Anatomy of Murder
Self and Other in SF
Alien-encounter SF involves the introduction of sentient alien beings into the actantial system of the fictional universe; one or more of the actants are nonhuman or superhuman or subhuman. By staging a confrontation between an alien actant and a terran representative, alien-encounter SF broaches the question of Self and the Other. The reader recuperates this fiction by comparing human and alien entities, measuring the Self by examining the Other…
Worlds Apart
Against Genre/Theory
John J. Pierce, Great Themes of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. ix + 250 pp. C. N. Manlove, Science Fiction: Ten Explorations. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1986. x + 249 pp. Albert Wendland, Science, Myth, and the Fictional Creation of Alien Worlds. Studies in Speculative Fiction, No. 12. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Research Press, 1985. 200 pp
A Matter of “Boiling Roses”
Towards a Definition of Science Fantasy
SF and fantasy have a locus of intersection, science fantasy, an unstable narrative form which combines features from each genre. A science-fantasy world is one in which the characters or settings or events presuppose at least one clear violation of natural law or scientific necessity, but which explicitly provides an organized or scientific explanation for that violation and which grounds its discourse in a scientific episteme. Science fantasy, …
Reading Authorial Narration
Narration, then, rests upon the presence of a narrator or narrative medium (actors, book, film, etc.) and the absence of the events narrated.These events are present as fictions but absent as realities.Given this situation, it is possible to distinguish different kinds and qualities of narration by the varying extents to which they emphasize either that immediate process of narration . . .or those mediated events themselves (Robert Scholes, Semio…
Reading Authorial Narration
Narration, then, rests upon the presence of a narrator or narrative medium (actors, book, film, etc.) and the absence of the events narrated.These events are present as fictions but absent as realities.Given this situation, it is possible to distinguish different kinds and qualities of narration by the varying extents to which they emphasize either that immediate process of narration . . .or those mediated events themselves (Robert Scholes, Semio…
Towards a Definition of Science Fantasy
SF and fantasy have a locus of intersection, science fantasy, an unstable narrative form which combines features from each genre. A science-fantasy world is one in which the characters or settings or events presuppose at least one clear violation of natural law or scientific necessity, but which explicitly provides an organized or scientific explanation for that violation and which grounds its discourse in a scientific episteme. Science fantasy, …
A Matter of “Boiling Roses”
Against Genre/Theory
John J. Pierce, Great Themes of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. ix + 250 pp. C. N. Manlove, Science Fiction: Ten Explorations. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1986. x + 249 pp. Albert Wendland, Science, Myth, and the Fictional Creation of Alien Worlds. Studies in Speculative Fiction, No. 12. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Research Press, 1985. 200 pp
Worlds Apart
Self and Other in SF
Alien-encounter SF involves the introduction of sentient alien beings into the actantial system of the fictional universe; one or more of the actants are nonhuman or superhuman or subhuman. By staging a confrontation between an alien actant and a terran representative, alien-encounter SF broaches the question of Self and the Other. The reader recuperates this fiction by comparing human and alien entities, measuring the Self by examining the Other…
Anatomy of Murder
"Art and Life in Edith Wharton's "The Muse's Tragedy
By subjecting the words in the title to a closer scrutiny and examining the process of doubling in the story’s plot, this essay explores Edith Wharton’s interest in the relation between art and life in the modern world
Art (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Alien (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works)