Monthly Archives: November 2006

Genre as a Space of Possibles

By Steen | November 30, 2006

The first snippet from my preparation for my dissertation defense, I here investigate some of the potential worth of combining Genette’s concept of transtextuality with that of Bourdieu’s space of possibles.
One of the problems when working with genre, is how to draw up a boundary not just for which works belong within the genre, but [...]

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Martin Campbell, Casino Royale

By Steen | November 29, 2006

The new Bond film is great. It really is more a reinvention/revigoration of the novel than the 21st film in the franchise. While Daniel Craig isn’t perfect as Bond, he is definitely the best match for the specific type this film is, since Sean Connery, and since this film is closer to the novels, Craig [...]

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SF book meme

By Steen | November 23, 2006

I came across this on the web:
“Below is a Science Fiction Book Club list most significant SF novels between 1953-2006. The meme part of this works like so: Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star* next to [...]

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PhD Defense

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I have received the examiner’s report on my dissertation and my defense will be held December 12th. Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging my preperation and notes for the defense.

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John Updike, Terrorist

By Steen | November 15, 2006

Updike’s new novel comes five years after 9/11 and takes those events as the starting points for a discussion of what fanaticism and terrorism mean. Rather than looking at terrorists as coming from outside the US, he investigates how domestic terrorists might think and why they would hate US culture and society. It is an [...]

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