 | Lois Parkinson Zamora - 1989 - 254 страници
...on his work, he departs from custom in the introduction to his collected short fiction, saying that, "When we speak of 'seriousness' in fiction ultimately we are talking about an attitude toward death. . . ."5 The law of entropy describes the gradual death of the universe, and is indeed the metaphoric... | |
 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin - 1996 - 272 страници
...I do love SF — and that now I think encapsulates, as Pynchon almost always does, a bitter wisdom: When we speak of "seriousness" in fiction, ultimately...example, or how they handle it when it isn't so immediate ... (I suspect that one of the reasons fantasy and science fiction appeal so much to younger readers... | |
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when we speak of "seriousness" in fiction ultimately we are talking about an attitude toward death - how characters may act in its presence, for example, or how they handle it when it isn't so immediate 