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Noletto, Israel A. C., and Sebastião A. T. Lopes. "ESTRANGEMENT AND COGNITION – TIME TRAVEL PARADOXES AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING IN ISAAC ASIMOV'S THE END OF ETERNITY." Darandina Revista Eletrônica 12, no. 1 (2019): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3242651.
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Science fiction has been described as a genre of estrangement and cognition. HavingThe end of eternity (1955), by Isaac Asimov, as a case study, we demonstrate that temporal paradoxes and moral criticism, common themes of time travel stories, generate such effects. Our analysis is primarily based on authors such as Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. (2008), Nikolajeva (2009), and Suvin (1972).
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Santos, Naira Agostini Rodrigues dos, Antonio Tadeu Cheriff dos Santos, and Rildo Pereira da Silva. "Coping strategies of nurses in the care of patients with head and neck neoplasms." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 50, no. 4 (2016): 569–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-623420160000500005.
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Abstract OBJECTIVE To understand and describe the experience of the development of coping strategies during the professional life of nurses providing care to patients with facial image alteration. METHOD Descriptive qualitative study with a hermeneutic-dialectic framework conducted in the head and neck ward of a reference hospital in Rio de Janeiro, with the participation of eight nurses and data produced through semi-structured interviews conducted between June and August 2013. RESULTS Three major impressions were found: initial estrangement and complexity, consisting in the care given to patients with facial image alteration; a threshold between estrangement and coping, corresponding to the emergence of coping strategies during care; and image-likeness as a (re)cognition of the individual with facial image alteration in the development and consolidation of coping strategies during care. CONCLUSION Among other contributions, the identification and understanding of coping strategies may contribute to better qualify nursing education and care.
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Rogan, Alcena Madeline Davis, and Patrick Parrinder. "Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia." South Atlantic Review 67, no. 2 (2002): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201974.
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Steble, Janez. "The role of science fiction within the fluidity of slipstream literature." Acta Neophilologica 48, no. 1-2 (2015): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.48.1-2.67-86.
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The paper explores the complex and contradictory role of science fiction in slipstream, the type of postmodern non-realistic literature situated between the fantastic genres and the mainstream literary fiction. Because of its unstable status of occupying an interstitial position between multiple literary conventions, the article first deals with an expansive terminology affiliated with slipstream and elucidates upon using a unified term for it. Avantpop, transrealism, and interstitial fiction all help us in understanding the vast postmodern horizon of slipstream. Furthermore, the slipstream's philosophy of cognitive dissonance in comparison to science fiction's is analysed to see the similarities and differences between them. The section is mainly concerned on expanding Darko Suvin's concept of cognition and viewing it as partially compatible with slipstream's estrangement techniques. The final part is focused on the exemplary slipstream novel Vurt by Jeff Noon, a perfect example of science fiction providing material, including latest post-Newtonian paradigms of science, for slipstream to mould it in its own fashion.
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Strombeck, Andrew. "The Weird, the Ontological, and the Normal." American Literary History 31, no. 2 (2019): 347–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz002.
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Abstract Benjamin J. Robertson’s None of This Is Normal (2018) addresses the entire fictional project of the New Weird writer Jeff VanderMeer. In doing so, Robertson intervenes within recent discussions of new materialism, accounts of which have been entwined with the New Weird. Robertson finds VanderMeer querying the normalizing discourses of capitalism and colonialism, showing how the New Weird can serve as a site to extend and challenge the sometimes-limiting frameworks of the new materialisms. As its critics have shown, object-oriented ontology and other new materialisms risk reinforcing problems of primitivism and positivism. For Robertson, VanderMeer evades such problems by foregrounding the liberal, humanist frameworks marginalizing planet and colonized subject alike. Examining what he calls VanderMeer’s fantastic materiality, Robertson contends that VanderMeer supersedes what Darko Suvin calls cognitive estrangement; VanderMeer asks readers to encounter a world that is estranged but not cognitively recoverable. And yet, by reminding readers of VanderMeer’s poststructuralist attention to language and narrative, Robertson avoids the often-masculinist tendency to posit a primitive world beyond human cognition. None of This Is Normal will be useful to scholars interested in pushing past new materialism’s limits while retaining the field’s insights for questions of climate change and nonhuman agency.
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Partsch, Cornelius. "Paul Scheerbart and the Art of Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 29, Part 2 (2002): 202–20. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.29.2.0202.
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Science fiction studies has long been an interpretive arena marked by the discontents of the overarching generic classification. Through a reading of Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel (1910), a text that operates on the edges of several genres, this article examines the historical and conceptual differences between Anglo-American and German sf scholarship and derives from recent genre theory a critical principle of explicit openness, one in which genre can become constitutive of complex and hybrid narratives. Scheerbart’s text refers extensively to its discursive environment, drawing on both fictional anel scientific writing-including popular, alternative, anel speculative science-as well as some of the important cultural debates of its time. Parallel to its evolutionist plot, the construction of a gigantic tower as a means to finding the “secret” of life and to advancing the species, Lesabéndio is itself a highly contrived anel dynamic narrative edifice. It challenges its readers to move in and out of generic ideas, discursive formations, and, as sf, to negotiate the interactions between cognition and estrangement.
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Šram, Zlatko. "Social–Psychological Underpinning of Anti–Church Sentiment." Obnovljeni život 80, no. 2 (2025): 207–20. https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.80.2.5.
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The aim of this research is to learn whether social alienation, Schwartz’s values, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism contribute to the prediction of results obtained on the scale of anti–Church sentiment. The survey was conducted on a convenience sample of full–aged citizens of Croatian ethnicity. Factor analysis was performed on the scales of anti–Church sentiment, social alienation, and Schwartz’s 10 individual values in order to establish the construct validity of these measurements. The results of the first multiple regression analysis revealed that social alienation and value orientations were significant predictors of anti–Church sentiment. The second multiple regression showed that primary psychopathy and Machiavellianism were also significant predictors of anti–Church sentiment. The construct of anti–Church sentiment was proven to be a hybrid of personal and attitudinal variables and motivated social cognition. Factor analysis performed was based on all variables investigated, and it revealed the existence of a latent “dark” attitudinal–personal construct of which anti–Church sentiment is a factorially significant component. Such a construct of anti–Church sentiment implicates the existence of a personality disorder and social dysfunction, and, at the same time, indirectly implies alienation or estrangement from the life of God.
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Peel, Ellen. "Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Edited by Patrick Parrinder. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. viii+312." Modern Philology 102, no. 4 (2005): 578–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/433225.
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Neil Easterbrook. "Cognitive Estrangement Is Us." Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 2 (2013): 364. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.40.2.0364.
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Kapusta, Stephanie Julia. "Practice of Cognitive Estrangement." Australasian Philosophical Review 3, no. 1 (2019): 90–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2019.1705257.
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Spiegel, Simon. "Things Made Strange: On the Concept of “Estrangement” in Science Fiction Theory." Science Fiction Studies 35, Part 3 (2008): 369–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.35.3.0369.
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The concept of “estrangement” has been central to sf criticism ever since Darko Suvin defined the genre as creating the effect of “cognitive estrangement.” By going back to the theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht, I will show how Suvin, in his approach, intermingles formal, fictional, generic, and receptive aspects of estrangement. Contrary to Suvin’s assessment, it is not sf’s primary formal operation to render familiar things strange, but to make the alien look ordinary, a process I call naturalization. In sf, estrangement mainly happens on a diegetic level, when a marvelous element is introduced into an apparently realistic world.
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Wald, Priscilla. "Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics." Lancet 371, no. 9628 (2008): 1908–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(08)60821-1.
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Zepke, Stephen. "Beyond cognitive estrangement: The future of science fiction cinema." NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 1, no. 2 (2012): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/necsus2012.2.zepk.
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HWANG, Ho Duk. "Genealogy of Korean Disaster Narratives - From non-cognitive familiarity to cognitive estrangement." Journal of Korean Fiction Research 88 (December 31, 2022): 431–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.20483/jkfr.2022.12.88.431.
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Garritano, Daniele. "Straniamento e senso comune. Pratiche di conoscenza tra automatismi percettivi, autoriflessione e processi trasformativi." Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali 11, no. 22 (2022): 169–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/cambio-10626.
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This paper deals with the sociological concept of common-sense in a strict relationship with the literary concept of estrangement. The first part makes a transdisciplinary comparison between Alfred Schütz’s approach to «common-sense» and Viktor Šklovskij’s notion of «estrangement», noticing an impressive series of similarities in the way in which the Austrian sociologist and the Russian literary theorist dealt with perceptive automatisms and linguistic routines of everyday life. As social agents and as subjects of knowledge, we need the taken-for-granted of common-sense as a set of orientation tools in our lifeworld. On the other hand, the distancing effect of estrangement impacts on common-sense’s transformational processes as well as on cognitive purposes related to the intellectual practices of arts and sciences. The second part evaluates the consequences of this ambivalent relationship in the making of knowledge processes and scientific researches, focusing on cultural practices of linguistic recognition from a sociological perspective. The final sections include a critical reading of Carlo Ginzburg’s Making Things Strange and Norbert Elias’ Involving and Detachment, with the purpose of pointing out the methodological importance of reflexivity and its transformative potentialities for social knowledge as a potential use of estrangement.
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Gamoneda Lanza, Amelia. "Desaprendizaje e inestabilidad. Perspectivas para una teoría cognitiva de la lectura poética." Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica 28 (June 28, 2019): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/signa.vol28.2019.25043.
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La lectura poética explora técnicas que rescatan procesos cognitivos básicos y aún no automatizados que todo aprendizaje lector activa. Asimismo, la lectura poética sostiene e incentiva los estados de inestabilidad cognitiva por los que ha de pasar cualquier proceso mental. Se configuran así estrategias cognitivas de desaprendizaje de automatismos y de irresolución de interpretaciones que tienen como resultado el extrañamiento y la complejidad, y que se analizarán en el contexto de un poema de Baudelaire.This poetic reading explores techniques which rediscover basic cognitive processes which up to now have not been automated and which all readers draw upon. At the same time, the poetic reading sustains and incentivizes the state of cognitive instability through which every mental process passes. In this way the article shows cognitive strategies of unlearning of methods already learned and strategies of maintaining irreconcilable interpretations which result in estrangement and complexity, and which will be analyzed in the context of a poem by Baudelaire.
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Posadas. "Hidden Histories, Traveling Time: Science Fiction Translation as Cognitive Estrangement." Mechademia: Second Arc 14, no. 1 (2021): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/mech.14.1.0185.
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Kolotaev, Vladimir A. "On Two Viewpoints on the Dramaturgical Conflict Structure: from Hegel’s Aesthetics to the Identity of the Formalists." Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The space of culture 18, no. 2 (2022): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.36340/2071-6818-2022-18-2-40-47.
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In Russian humanitarian knowledge, the understanding of the nature of the dramaturgical conflict was influenced by aesthetic ideas about beauty, harmony, the sublime, and the ideal, formulated by Hegel in the Lectures on Aesthetics. In line with classical concepts, the conflict is understood as a necessary condition for maintaining the compositional unity of the work and the action development, leading to the final equilibrium state of all its elements after the separation of the participants in the collision to the maximum distance. In addition to the aesthetic understanding of the conflict as the basis for the harmonic organisation of the text, an idea of the conflict as the primary condition for the development of all systems was formed. This direction is also based on the Hegelian doctrine, which, however, is not connected with his aesthetic views on art but with The Phenomenology of Spirit, explaining historical patterns and the dialectical processes of the formation of the cognising subject, embarked on the path of struggle for recognition and turned out to be an instrument for bringing the spirit to oneself. In the context of the doctrine of the absolute spirit, the concept of conflict is the bases for personality development (Freud, Vygotsky), life cycles (E.Erickson), and textual organisms (M.Bakhtin), where the collision of two forces of the emerging subject of cognition leads a stable state of the system to irreversible changes, a transition to a new quality, to a higher stage of development in the case of a productive resolution of contradictions and the emergence of a new formation that is different from the two participants in the confrontation. Throughout the 20th century, Russian humanitarian thought developed mainly under the influence of the aesthetic paradigm, as evidenced by the definitions of the dramatic conflict offered by literary theorists. Such a history has its reasons, which lie in the plane of understanding the official ideology, art and culture, reflecting the historical meaning of the revolutionary achievements of a classless and, therefore, conflict-free society, which achieved the dialectical removal of all contradictions in the main historical event. However, the Hegelian understanding of the modification of textual organisation due to a catastrophic event, a shift, underlies a theory that has not been fully mastered by the Russian tradition but which has outlined a new way of perceiving and understanding the nature of a dramatic conflict as a change in identity due to irreversible actions and a further change in the structure of the subject-text. This is Shklovsky's theory of estrangement, which expressed the essence of formal poetics but was forced out to the periphery and, for compelling historical reasons, did not receive further development in the theory of art.
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Suvin, Darko. "O poetyce gatunku science fiction." Creatio Fantastica 59, no. 1 (2019): 9–24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3311557.
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The first Polish translation of one of the best-known articles on the poetics of science fiction, considered nowadays a must-read reference in the field. In this classical piece, Darko Suvin famously argues in favour of introducing the concept of cognitive estrangement modelled after Viktor Shklovsky’s ostranenie (often questionably rendered as defamiliarisation) as well as Bertolt Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt (as defined in his Kleines Organon für das Theater). Arguing, in due course, for acknowledging the cognitive and epistemological potential of thus defined estrangement, Suvin proceeds to introduce and analyse two distinct models for studying science fiction from both historical and formalist perspective—the extrapolative model and analogic model—which altogether help at outlining features of the most prototypal science fiction. This translation is also supplemented with an addendum from 2014 wherein the author revisits his thoughts from Marxist perspective and ponders on their relevance in reference to a more politically inclined debate in science fiction studies.
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CHERNEYKO, LIUDMILA. "READER’S PERCEPTION IN LITERATURE STUDIES: TOWARDS THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF THE QUESTION. PART 2." Lomonosov Journal of Philology, no. 1, 2023 (May 3, 2023): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0130-0075-9-2023-1-89-9810.55959/.
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The second part of the article is devoted to the phenomenon of surprise, which is significant for studying the reader’s perception of a literary text (CT) and for understanding estrangement (ostranneniе) not only as a literary device, but also as a certain state of the reader’s consciousness. In the ambiguous interpretation of this state of the human psyche, taken in the status of both basic emotion and intellectual assessment, by modern psychology, there is no contradiction, since an attempt to understand the world is accompanied by the experience of an intentional object, if it does not begin with it. However, the new, the unknown, being the objectcause of surprise as an intellectual-cognitive state of consciousness, induces opposite emotional reactions in different people - like (acceptance up to delight) and hostility (rejection up to irritation). It is these emotional epiphenomena of surprise that can serve as an argument for distinguishing within the considered intellectual state «surprise+», when the new causes emotional acceptance and intellectual interest, and «surprise-», when the new causes such emotional rejection that leaves no room for the cognitive aspirations of the mind. Speech examples of the emotional ambivalence of surprise are presented both in Russian and in other languages. Particular attention is paid to the connection between the concept of ‘surprise’ and the concept of ‘estrangement’ (ostranneniе), as well as their connection with the author’s position. Th e formation of the text also has a cognitive-aesthetic reason, which consists in the author’s understanding of life through surprise in its two forms - acceptance and rejection (as a rule, in their complex interweaving), and a formalaesthetic goal, confirmed by draft s. The study of the material made it possible to come to the conclusion that the surprise of the author (in any of the author’s artistic incarnations) with his diametrically opposed epiphenomena is the reason for the estrangement as a verbal-compositional embodiment of this mode of consciousness in CT. At the same time, «surprise-» dominates and the method of estrangement adequate to it in the linguistic embodiment given within the framework of this type of surprise.
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Cherneyko, Liudmila. "READER’S PERCEPTION IN LITERATURE STUDIES: TOWARDS THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF THE QUESTION. PART 2." Lomonosov Journal of Philology, no. 1 (March 22, 2023): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0130-0075-9-2023-1-89-98.
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The second part of the article is devoted to the phenomenon of surprise, which is significant for studying the reader’s perception of a literary text (CT) and for understanding estrangement (ostrannenie) not only as a literary device, but also as a certain state of the reader’s consciousness. In the ambiguous interpretation of this state of the human psyche, taken in the status of both basic emotion and intellectual assessment, by modern psychology, there is no contradiction, since an attempt to understand the world is accompanied by the experience of an intentional object, if it does not begin with it. However, the new, the unknown, being the object-cause of surprise as an intellectual-cognitive state of consciousness, induces opposite emotional reactions in different people — like (acceptance up to delight) and hostility (rejection up to irritation). It is these emotional epiphenomena of surprise that can serve as an argument for distinguishing within the considered intellectual state «surprise+», when the new causes emotional acceptance and intellectual interest, and «surprise–», when the new causes such emotional rejection that leaves no room for the cognitive aspirations of the mind. Speech examples of the emotional ambivalence of surprise are presented both in Russian and in other languages. Particular attention is paid to the connection between the concept of ‘surprise’ and the concept of ‘estrangement’ (ostrannenie), as well as their connection with the author’s position. The formation of the text also has a cognitive-aesthetic reason, which consists in the author’s understanding of life through surprise in its two forms — acceptance and rejection (as a rule, in their complex interweaving), and a formal-aesthetic goal, confirmed by draft s. The study of the material made it possible to come to the conclusion that the surprise of the author (in any of the author’s artistic incarnations) with his diametrically opposed epiphenomena is the reason for the estrangement as a verbal-compositional embodiment of this mode of consciousness in CT. At the same time, «surprise–» dominates and the method of estrangement adequate to it in the linguistic embodiment given within the framework of this type of surprise.
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Klata, Michał. "Strategies of Cognitive Estrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140." Prague Journal of English Studies 10, no. 1 (2021): 109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2021-0007.
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Abstract This paper seeks to analyse the strategies of cognitive estrangement employed by the science fiction writer and literary scholar Kim Stanley Robinson in his New York 2140 (2017). I argue that the novel was written as a call to action to mitigate the effects of climate change, and rather than being merely a description of a particular vision of the future, provides a comment on the current ecological crisis, mechanisms of history, and human agency. Robinson’s unusual position at the intersection of the field of literary production and literature studies allowed him to apply the ideas developed for the analysis of the genre of science fiction in his creative work. The three main thematic areas in the novel are ecology, politics, and history. In each of these, allusions to the present, the past, and literary tradition, characterisation, and narrative structure are used as a means to convey the author’s message and sensitise the reader to issues connected with ecology and social justice, painting a realistic, yet hopeful vision where human civilisation carries on despite the consequences of global warming.
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Bukharbayeva, Kamola. "THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE CONCEPT OF FOREGROUNDING." GOLDEN BRAIN 1, no. 11 (2023): 240–43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7865805.
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<em>The foregrounding a technique that reveals itself rather than hides itself. He finds the most obvious examples of foregrounding in the works of Stern, Joyce, Rimbaud, Faulkner and Beckett, and to explain the essence of estrangement he uses Beckett’s apology for Joyce’s artistic method. </em>
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Raikhert, K. "Heuristics as a cognitive function." Doxa, no. 1(35) (December 22, 2021): 120–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2410-2601.2021.1(35).246746.
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The study conceptualizes science fiction as heuristics. To implement this conceptualization, a hybrid definition of science fiction is proposed: science fiction is a kind of fiction whose works can be characterized by secondary artistic conventionality, cognitive estrangement, and test of an intellectual idea or fantastic assumption. As an operational characterization of heuristics, V. Spiridonov’s concept of heuristics is used. Science fiction can be considered as a kind of heuristics under specific conditions, for example, when science fiction work contains the reflected-out heuristics or when heuristics are brought as science fiction work to stimulate the intuitive flash of the thought or insight. However, science fiction can only be regarded as heuristics with certain reservations: science fiction primarily solves artistic problems while heuristics primarily solve cognitive problems: and they can function independently of each other. But it shows that a heuristic function can be attributed to science fiction to solute a problem or to gain a piece of new knowledge (to make a discovery) in an intellectually and creative way.
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Cromphout, Francis. "From Estrangement to Commitment: Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics and T Zero." Science Fiction Studies 16, Part 2 (1989): 161–83. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.16.2.161.
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Italo Calvino did not think of himself as an SF writer. This fact, however, has to do with the situation of SF in Italy at the time Cosmicomics and T Zero were published more than with certain prejudices about how SF is to be defined—such as the notion that the genre should be wholly identified with the novel of scientific anticipation. Given a generic typology like that which Darko Suvin establishes, the two works of Calvino’s just mentioned can properly be claimed as belonging among the best SF by reason of their mode of proceeding, which is at once cognitive, pluritemporal, and estranged. This proceeding leads Calvino to construct cognitive utopian fictions, the product of the demands for order, identity, and applicability to the extrafictional world, all of which are thematized in his “cosmicomical” stories. The result is an œuvre which implies, especially on the stylistic level (in both the narrow and the broadest sense), an engagement on the part of the writer. Calvino, in other words, calls into question established norms of thinking in a way that also imparts the idea of the world’s transformability. (FC)
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Леонтьева, Ксения Ивановна. "AESTHETIC DOMINANTS AND THE STRATEGY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Филология, no. 4(67) (November 24, 2020): 190–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vtfilol/2020.4.190.
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Рассматриваются доминанты стратегии перевода, позволяющие реализовать в переводах категорию ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЕ, системообразующую в когнитивном акте поэзиса. Это принципы художественной целостности, гармонии формы и содержания, иконичности и отграниченности художественной модели мира, структурные принципы отождествления, со- и противопоставления, а также механизмы детализации, глоссализации и (де)автоматизации восприятия в основе приёма остранения. The article outlines a set of aesthetic dominants constitutive of the cognitive act of poesis and thus fundamental to the translation strategy aimed at the category THE LITERARY. These are the principles of literary integrity, of form-content harmony, of the iconic and delimitated nature of the world model construed in the text and of structural equation, juxtaposition and opposition, as well as the cognitive mechanisms of specification, glossalization and perceptual (de)automaticity crucial to the estrangement technique.
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Krasa-Ryabets, Olga. "On the Edge of the Perceptible: Microacting, imaginary worlds and cognitive estrangement in virtual performance." Performance Research 26, no. 3 (2021): 74–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2021.1977506.
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Dinh Ngoc, Mai, and Hieu Tran Ngoc. "KEN LIU’S THE ALGORITHMS FOR LOVE: HUMANITY IN CRISIS IN A WORLD GOVERNED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE." Journal of Science Social Science 66, no. 4 (2021): 24–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2021-0066.
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This article aims to explore the crisis of humanity when facing unprecedented developments in artificial intelligence. Applying Darko Suvin’s framework of the poetics of the science fiction genre, particularly the two concepts of cognitive estrangement and novum, this article will elaborate on not only the fundamental poetics of the genre, but also the ways in which Ken Liu employs it to convey a sense of suspicion surrounding the disorienting speed of scientific progress. Through the protagonist’s frenzied internal conflict with her state-of-theart smart robot dolls, The Algorithms for Love reflects the wave of skepticism regarding technological advances in modern science fiction.
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Vinci, Tony M. "Posthumanist Sentimentality." Extrapolation 64, no. 3 (2023): 373–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.23.
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Jeff VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird (2018) fuses speculative fiction’s project of cognitive estrangement with sentimental literature’s project of dispersing ethically charged affective experience. The resulting mode of narrative, what I term posthumanist sentimentality, estranges readers from established forms of both thought and feeling, opening them to models of care that operate in more-than-human worlds. Entangling the traumatic account of the eponymous posthuman creature with the romantic history of the humans who made her, The Strange Bird highlights both the dangers of anthropocentrism and the values of radical ontological vulnerability when learning to witness for and with posthuman and post-traumatic subjects.
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Attebery, Brian. "Affordances of Fantasy." Genre 57, no. 1 (2024): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10982852.
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Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy-Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re-visioning. Such re-visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique that Darko Suvin called “cognitive estrangement.” Whereas science fiction projects alternative futures, fantasy's affordances allow writers to generate alternative worldviews grounded in real or invented mythic pasts. The initial move away from claiming to imitate reality allows fantasy writers to project inner experience onto an outer storyworld (there is no pathetic fallacy in fantasy), to depict multiple contradictory selves (housed within a single body or spread out over several characters), and to invite readers to consider alternatives to commonsense assumptions and seemingly inevitable social orders.
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Hamdan, Yousef Hussein, and Sami Mohammed Ababneh. "Defamiliarization / Estrangement in Nabil Abd-Alkarim's Short Story Collection Beautiful Pictures (Al-Suwar Al-Jamilah)." Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) 9, no. 4 (2020): 1590–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.25255/jss.2020.9.4.1590.1608.
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This paper highlights artistic techniques in Nabil Abd-Alkarim's short story collection Beautiful Pictures which represents common and familiar issues at the level of reality and in literary studies. The paper relies on Shklovsky's concept of "defamiliarization" to examine the role techniques play in estranging familiar and recurring topics that have already become automatic and ineffective. Artistic techniques aim to reintroduce these topics to the human understanding in a unique and unusual way, so they look new, as if the person gets to know them again. The paper highlights a number of artistic references in the collection that reflect the cognitive awareness upon which they are based, as they belong to the imagination even when they deal with realistic issues. Then, it studies "defamiliarization" in the collection at the level of language, and it focuses on its intensification, its wide dependence on images, the use of details, and the resulting ambiguity. The paper also tackles "defamiliarization" at the level of characters, as they appear in the collection eccentric and perform abnormal behavior. The stories present this in an analytical framework which reveals hidden and pressing psychological factors that drive them to such behavior. While the paper studies several stories, it focuses in particular on two, namely, “Beautiful Pictures” an eponymous story, and “Mutual Services” (“Khadamat Mutabadalah”), as two examples of what the paper refers to in the collection.
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Albano, Anne Marie. "Treatment of Social Phobia in Adolescents: Cognitive Behavioral Programs Focused on Intervention and Prevention." Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 14, no. 1 (2000): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0889-8391.14.1.67.
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Social phobia is an exaggerated fear of a variety of social and performance situations due to the concern that one may become embarrassed or humiliated in front of others. Such fear is considered “normal” to some degree, especially during the period of adolescence. However, for a significant proportion of youth, social fear and social phobia become pathological conditions impacting upon functioning across a variety of life domains (friendships, academics, family functioning, vocational functioning). Youth with social phobia report greater feelings of depression, estrangement from others, hopelessness, and loneliness. Moreover, research indicates that social phobia, if left untreated, can be a major pathway for more complex and destructive complications, such as suicidality and substance abuse. This paper reviews the research in the area of social anxiety and social phobia in adolescents. The phenomenology of the disorder, particularly within a developmental context, is presented. Current data supporting the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral group treatment program for adolescents are presented, along with a presentation of a new program under development which is designed to target youth at risk of developing the disorder.
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Yousef, Hussein Hamdan, and Mohammed Ababneh Sami. "Defamiliarization / Estrangement in Nabil Abd-Alkarim's Short Story Collection Beautiful Pictures (Al-Suwar Al-Jamilah)." Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) 9, no. 4 (2020): 1590.1608. https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2020.9.4.1590.1608.
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This paper highlights artistic techniques in Nabil Abd-Alkarim's short story collection <em>Beautiful Pictures</em> which represents common and familiar issues at the level of reality and in literary studies. The paper relies on Shklovsky's concept of "defamiliarization" to examine the role techniques play in estranging familiar and recurring topics that have already become automatic and ineffective. Artistic techniques aim to reintroduce these topics to the human understanding in a unique and unusual way, so they look new, as if the person gets to know them again. The paper highlights a number of artistic references in the collection that reflect the cognitive awareness upon which they are based, as they belong to the imagination even when they deal with realistic issues. Then, it studies "defamiliarization" in the collection at the level of language, and it focuses on its intensification, its wide dependence on images, the use of details, and the resulting ambiguity. The paper also tackles "defamiliarization" at the level of characters, as they appear in the collection eccentric and perform abnormal behavior. The stories present this in an analytical framework which reveals hidden and pressing psychological factors that drive them to such behavior. While the paper studies several stories, it focuses in particular on two, namely, “Beautiful Pictures” an eponymous story, and “Mutual Services” (“Khadamat Mutabadalah”), as two examples of what the paper refers to in the collection.
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Armillas-Tiseyra, Magalí. "Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3, no. 3 (2016): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2016.14.
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This essay investigates the critical function of science fiction (SF) tropes in SF and non-SF works by and about Africans. It begins with the assertion that works that invoke SF tropes, even if they are not properly speaking SF, can productively be read within the frame of SF. It then analyzes the ways in which writers and visual artists use speculative technological advances to explore the systematic marginalization of the African continent in the world-system. Drawing on Darko Suvin, Raymond Williams, and Fredric Jameson, it illustrates how these works use the cognitive estrangement characteristic of SF to posit a break in established systems of thought; this is, ultimately, a utopian gesture. Works discussed include Deji Bryce Olukotun’sNigerians in Space, Sony Labou Tansi’sLife and a Half, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’sWizard of the Crow, Cristina de Middel’sThe Afronauts, and Frances Bodomo’sAfronauts.
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Chambliss, Tormechi, Jung-Lung Hsu, and Mei-Lan Chen. "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: A Concept Analysis." Behavioral Sciences 14, no. 6 (2024): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs14060485.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs when an individual experiences a traumatic event that exceeds the limits of psychological endurance. Many veterans experience PTSD. PTSD can negatively impact veterans’ quality of life, functioning, life satisfaction, and overall well-being. It is important to analyze the concept of PTSD in the veteran population. This concept analysis aimed to investigate the defining attributes, a model case, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents related to the concept of PTSD among veterans. Walker and Avant’s method was used to guide this concept analysis of PTSD. The results showed that three attributes were determined from the analysis: intrusive memories of traumatic events, feelings of isolation and estrangement, and negative cognitions. PTSD is conceptualized as a collection of symptoms that arise from highly traumatic experiences. The military environment predisposes veterans to traumatic events that should be identified or acknowledged. A better understanding of the concept of PTSD can facilitate the development of effective interventions for the veteran population and enhance their mental health.
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Levine, Joshua, and Leo Sher. "The Prevention of Suicide in Older Military Veterans." Behavioral Sciences 15, no. 3 (2025): 379. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15030379.
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Suicidal behavior among older military veterans is an important medical and social problem. The goal of this literature review is to discuss this underappreciated issue and identify suicide preventive interventions that can be utilized with the older military veteran population. Older veterans experience psychiatric, medical, and social problems associated with their age and/or military experience that can contribute to suicide risk. These problems include relationship losses through death or estrangement, depression, cognitive decline, loneliness, isolation, frailty, mobility issues, and chronic pain. Therefore, older veterans face a unique set of challenges. Suicide prevention in older veterans should take a multipronged approach which includes screening for suicidality, management of psychiatric and medical disorders, social assistance, safety planning, lethal means restriction, and involving family members in the veteran’s healthcare. Family members should be included in the safety planning process when possible. Gatekeeper training programs can be utilized to train individuals who are working with older veterans to reduce suicides amongst this age group.
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BABELYUK, Oksana, Olena KOLIASA, and Valeriia SMAGLII. "Language Means of Revealing Postmodern Ludic Absurd in English Literary Text." WISDOM 20, no. 4 (2021): 166–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v20i4.531.
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The fiction politics of contemporaneity reflects diversified patterns of language forms and their func- tions. This has brought to life experimental (postmodernist) writing the key principles of intertextuality, fragmentation, destruction, play. Postmodernist aesthetics caused a blurring of traditional genre canons that led to contamination of syncretic genre compounds through a grotesque transformation of traditional genre models and created an „estrangement? effect. The phenomenon of ludic absurd is viewed in three as- pects: 1) linguo-philosophical; 2) cognitive; 3) poetic. The present study focuses on the analysis of ludic absurd; the role of graphic, phonetic, morphemic, word-forming, syntactical, semantic mechanisms, based on the intentional deviation of language norm, play on words; cognitive mechanisms, generated by ad-hoc way of thinking. The conducted linguopoetic analysis of American postmodern short stories suggests that ludic absurd as a stylistic device of postmodern poetics manifests itself at all language levels (lexical, syn- tactic, semasiological, and textual) and is realized via the semantic asymmetry of lexical units, using illog- ical, but grammatically correct syntactic constructions, syntactic mismatch of sentences and whole text fragments. Prospects for further studies consist in clarifying the pragmatic role of ludic absurd in the postmodern literary text; expanding the taxonomy of lexico-semantic, stylistic, and syntactic and paragraphemic means of ludic absurd.
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Soriano-Lemen, Maria Isabel, and Gina Lamzon. "Emotional Freedom Techniques for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors." Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies 43, no. 2 (2023): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ajess/2023/v43i2936.
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Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a phenomenon that has affected the lives of many women and female adolescents. Eleven (11) residents of a center for abused females were included in this study. Using the case study research method of Yin, data was gathered from multiple sources. Findings were (1)emotion regulation skills were enhanced for some participants; (2) estrangement or hostility from family contributed to the prevalence of the symptoms; (3) some participants’ precursor to change characteristics may have hindered therapy progress; (4) EFTs lack an emphasis on building therapeutic alliance; (5)Cognitive Behavioral Theory when used with EFTs make the sessions more helpful; (6) outside factors may have affected the worsening or reduction of symptoms; (7) there is a need to distinguish between tapping for day-to-day management of emotions and tapping on core issues; and (8) assessment, case conceptualization, and the preparation of a treatment plan play an important role, if there is to be treatment success. Recommendations include suggestions to enhance the therapeutic process, considerations that need to be made in relation to symptomatology of CSA survivors, their precursor to change characteristics, standardizing the implementation of EFTs, and integrating Cognitive Behavioral Theory with EFTs so that a more structured therapeutic approach can be made.
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Kuvač-Levačić, Kornelija. "THE EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCT OF THE FUTURE IN ORWELL’S 1984. AND CROATIAN SCIENCE FICTION IN THE 2000s." Lipar XXIV, no. 82 (2023): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/lipar82.085kl.
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In this paper, two works of science fiction, distanced from each other both spatially and tem- porally (as they belong to different national literatures) are analysed: Orwell’s novel 1984 and Darko Macan’s and Tatjana Jambrišak’s short story „Besmrtni slučaj“ (“An Immortal Case”), as an example of Croatian science fiction from the 2000s. This research is focused on the ways in which these respective authors textually construct emotions within the framework of a fictional perspectivisation of the future. Contemporary constructivist approaches to the emotions show that they are an important part of cognitive processes and also culturally conditioned entities. This work proves that emotional constructs of the future can be taken into consideration when dealing with the basic genre characteristics of science fiction. This means that they participate in the creation of a conceptual breakthrough of the paradigm of our episteme, that they are a part of cognitive estrangement, or of the fictional novum validated by epistemic logic. Thus, this topic, when approaching science fiction, despite the national literature or period to which such a work may belong, may contribute to further research regarding the possible cultural conditions of the emotions of the future, as well as furthering knowledge on the characteristics of the genre of modern science fiction.
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Liashenko, Tetiana. "The Cognitive-communicative Dimension of the Reproduction of Cultural Information in Literary Translation." Fìlologìčnì traktati 12, no. 2 (2020): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2020.12(2)-6.
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The paper highlights the strategies of reproduction of cultural specific information and overcoming cultural differences on the material of German translation. As the methodological basis for defining strategies of reproducing cultural information serves the definition of translation as a unity of process and result, as a cognitive-communicative activity that unfolds in a three-phase process - interpretation of the megaconcept of the original, modeling of the megaconcept of translation, and its implementation at the text level. To outline the integrative conceptual image of the original, the method of field modeling of the concept has been applied. The conceptual, image and value components of the hierarchical structure of a megaconcept of the work have been characterized. The transfer of the conceptual image of the original onto the worldview of the German language revealed the differences and lacunarity of cultural information as well as divergence of its value interpretations. As a result of the study, the foreignization was identified as a global strategy for preserving the cultural component of the original text. On the material stated the problems of translation, connected with reproduction of cultural information were studied. The primary focus is on the reproduction of realia, imagery, dialect, national specifics of emotions and overcoming the temporal distance. The correlation between the use of the local strategies of domestication and estrangement and the nature of cultural information reproduction problems was investigated. The tactics and techniques of translation of culturally specific elements of the text were identified.
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Viglas, Katelis. "The Placement of Lucian’s Novel True History in the Genre of Science Fiction." Interlitteraria 21, no. 1 (2016): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2016.21.1.13.
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Among the works of the ancient Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata, well-known for his scathing and obscene irony, there is the novel True History. In this work Lucian, being in an intense satirical mood, intended to undermine the values of the classical world. Through a continuous parade of wonderful events, beings and situations as a substitute for the realistic approach to reality, he parodies the scientific knowledge, creating a literary model for the subsequent writers. Without doubt, nowadays, Lucian’s large influence on the history of literature has been highlighted. What is missing is pointing out the specific characteristics that would lead to the placement of True History at the starting point of Science Fiction. We are going to highlight two of these features: first, the operation of “cognitive estrangement”, which aims at providing the reader with the perception of the difference between the convention and the truth, and second, the use of strange innovations (“novum”) that verify the value of Lucian’s work by connecting it to historicity.
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Ren, Xueying, Ruizhe Liu, Marc N. Coutanche, Julie A. Fiez, and Melissa E. Libertus. "Numerical estrangement and integration between symbolic and non-symbolic numerical information: Task-dependence and its link to math abilities in adults." Cognition 224 (July 2022): 105067. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105067.
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Levy, Denise, Telma Martins Peralta, Loreny Pozzi, and Izi Pozzi De Tovar. "Teachers’ multidimensional role towards meaningful learning: the potential value of interdisciplinary environments." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 6, no. 2 (2018): 179–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol6.iss2.961.
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The definition of “interdisciplinary learning environment” gives rise to different interpretations. This article presents and discusses interdisciplinarity in pedagogical practice for the construction of meaningful learning, strengthening the construction of knowledge in personal, scientific and social spheres. Case studies respectively show: the contribution of interdisciplinary work to self-identity and subjective constitution in early childhood; interdisciplinary work in an informal learning environment as a facilitating element towards scientific knowledge consolidation; and the university’s interdisciplinary work in social projects for building a fairer society. In the light of neuroscience, the article discusses aspects of cognitive and social-emotional developments, as well as the approximations and estrangements between the object of study and the epistemic subject. In the so-called Society of Information, the multidimensional character of the teacher’s work becomes a necessity and a challenge, since it is the school’s role to form citizen-students, developing competences to increase students´ academic knowledge and extend it to their personal, professional and social lives.
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Urbańczyk, Agnieszka. "Turning the political into ideology: The exorcizing of a metaphor in James Blish’s short story adaptation of a cold war Star Trek narrative." European Journal of American Culture 41, no. 3 (2022): 241–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00077_1.
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The article is a case study of James Blish’s short story adaptation of the Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) episode ‘Balance of Terror’, originally a pacifist narrative focused on tragic choices forced upon individuals. The episode is notable not only for introducing Romulans to the franchise but also for painting them in an unexpectedly sympathetic light as the extratextual power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union is criticized by means of cognitive estrangement. The hegemonic tenor of the submarine film subgenre the episode emulates becomes quickly subverted as both sides of the conflict are given a voice, and the eventual victory of Captain Kirk is painted almost as a moral defeat. Blish’s adaptation is a testimony to the misinterpretation of TOS. Blish did not translate an SF story into another medium but rewrote it into a war narrative while not changing any major events, taking the episode at face value and apparently not noticing the allegory on which it was founded. This case serves as an example of how easily a subversive narrative can be co-opted the moment genre is misidentified.
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As'ari, Jamaludin, and C. Casmini. "Self Control Remaja Broken Home untuk Berintraksi dengan Lingkungan Sosial." Hukum dan Demokrasi (HD) 23, no. 1 (2023): 46–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.61234/hd.v23i1.15.
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Self control carried out by broken home teenagers is a way to control peaking desires. Broken home families can influence children in interacting with their social environment. The purpose of this research is how broken home youth self-control to interact with the social environment. The method used in this study is qualitative and data collection by telephone and WhatsApp interviews. In this study there are 3 aspects that can describe the subject of a broken home, namely; 1) cognitive point of view: The form of a broken home; which includes the destruction of the household, finances, and loyalty. 2) affective point of view: The influence of parental divorce; which includes separation of residence, cut off communication, harsh words, hurt feelings, high emotional intensity, feeling comfortable with other people, estrangement with parents. and 3) conative point of view: Tendency to behave; which includes speaking in a high tone, and not maximal in self-control. The following is an analysis of the strategies used by broken home youth in controlling themselves by getting used to reading istighfar when the past overshadows them.
 Keywords: self control, broken home, social environment
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Korpi, Suvi. "Generic Fluency in Fansubbing." Mikael: Kääntämisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen aikakauslehti 15 (April 1, 2022): 42–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.61200/mikael.129257.
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This study analyses the genre-specific features in the non-professional subtitling (fansubbing) of audiovisual science fiction (SF). Considered as one of the most important linguistic elements in SF, neologies create the cognitive estrangement from reality that is characteristic of the SF genre, cognitively estranging the reader from reality. Evaluating the translation of neologies is thus used as a tool to evaluate the transfer of the source text (ST) genre to the target text (TT). When the neologies are retained as genre-specific features of SF, the TT genre is regarded as generically fluent and the ST genre is accessible for the TT viewer. The study material reveals that the non-professional translations have retained the neologies with greater percentage than the professional translations of the same TV series translations resulting in a more fluent SF genre. This can be due to the tendency of fansubs to use foreignizing translation strategies. The material of the study consists of the neologies in non-professional and professional subtitles of contemporary Anglo-American SF series, which were analysed to determine whether they retain or recreate the SF generic fluency.
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Iannuzzi, Giulia. "Ruin Lust, Fantastic Futures: From the Eighteenth Century to Contemporary Speculative Archaeologies." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 31, no. 1 (2025): 222–50. https://doi.org/10.2478/hjeas/2025/31/1/11.
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Abstract This article examines the ruin as a device of cognitive estrangement used in speculative fiction to thematize given conceptualizations of historical time. Drawing on the hypothesis that the fantastic ruin and archaeological methods applied to past futures matured in the European imagination during the early modern age, this research locates twentieth-century fantastic archaeology in the long-standing history of the ruin within speculative imagination. Since the eighteenth century, the remains of the past have synecdochically fostered the idea of a future observer contemplating the ruins of the present. Throughout the nineteenth century, the idea of radical changes to come increasingly incorporated the possibility of disasters, catastrophes, and extinctions and speculations about lost civilizations. This article outlines the connection between these textual genealogies, with a particular focus on English-language literature and twentieth-century pseudo-archaeology that speculates about hyper-evolved terrestrial or alien civilizations in a distant past, through the case study of Peter Kolosimo, an Italian author who compiled his books drawing on sources from many European cultural traditions, and whose works have been translated into several languages, including English. (GI)
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Pearson, Wendy. "Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer." Science Fiction Studies 26, Part 1 (1999): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.26.1.0001.
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This article aims both to code and to decode, through the lens of queer theory, some of the “alien cryptographies” of science fiction. The figure of the alien, not surprisingly, is at the center of this (re)reading, which includes detailed analyses of two very different treatments of the alien/queer as the figure who moves invisibly through the territories of heteronormativity: John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” (1938) and Tom Reamy’s “Under the Hollywood Sign” (1975). The purpose of this essay is to delineate some of the complexities of queer as both political positioning and intellectual perspective; it suggests the wide variety of ways in which both readers and texts may be queered and it is committed to the notion of a postmodern and anti-essentialist engagement with identity politics. Science fiction’s propensity for rewriting the “common sense” narrative worlds of realism, its location on the margins of mainstream literature, and its techniques of cognitive estrangement are attributes which make of it a potentially powerful method of exploration in our ongoing attempts to envision worlds in which queer and alien no longer function as synonymous terms. (WP)
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Yang, Keng, Hanying Qi, and Qian Huang. "The impact of task description linguistic style on task performance: a text mining of crowdsourcing contests." Industrial Management & Data Systems 122, no. 1 (2021): 322–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imds-03-2021-0178.
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PurposeExisting studies on the relationship between task description and task performance are insufficient, with many studies considering description length rather than content to measure quality or only evaluating a single aspect of task performance. To address this gap, this study analyzes the linguistic styles of task descriptions from 2,545 tasks on the Taskcn.com crowdsourcing platform.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical analysis was completed for task description language styles and task performance. The paper used text mining tool Simplified Chinese Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to extract eight linguistic styles, namely readability, self-distancing, cognitive complexity, causality, tentative language, humanizing personal details, normative information and language intensity. And it tests the relationship between the eight language styles and task performance.FindingsThe study found that more cognitive complexity markers, tentative language, humanized details and normative information increase the quantity of submissions for a task. In addition, more humanized details and normative information in a task description improves the quality of task. Conversely, the inclusion of more causal relationships in a task description reduces the quantity of submissions. Poorer readability of the task description, less self-estrangement and higher language intensity reduces the quality of the task.Originality/valueThis study first reveals the importance of the linguistic styles used in task descriptions and provides a reference for how to attract more task solvers and achieve higher quality task performance by improving task descriptions. The research also enriches existing knowledge on the impact of linguistic styles and the applications of text mining.
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Wang, Yanlu, Behzad S. Khorashad, Jamie D. Feusner, and Ivanka Savic. "Cortical Gyrification in Transgender Individuals." Cerebral Cortex 31, no. 7 (2021): 3184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa412.
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Abstract Gender incongruence (GI) is characterized by a feeling of estrangement from the own body in the context of self. GI is often described in people who identify as transgender. The underlying mechanisms are unknown. Data from MRI measurements and tests of own body perception triggered us to pose a model that GI in transgender persons (TGI) could be associated with a disconnection within the brain circuits mediating the perception of own body as self. This is a departure from a previous model of sex atypical cerebral dimorphism, introducing a concept that better accords with a core feature of TGI. The present MRI study of 54 hormone naive transmen (TrM), 38 transwomen (TrW), 44 cismen and 41 ciswomen show that cortical gyrification, a metric that reflects early maturation of cerebral cortex, is significantly lower in transgender compared with cisgender participants. This reduction is limited to the occipito-parietal cortex and the sensory motor cortex, regions encoding own body image and body ownership. Moreover, the cortical gyrification correlated inversely with own body-self incongruence in these regions. These novel data suggest that GI in TGI may originate in the neurodevelopment of body image encoding regions. The results add potentially to understanding neurobiological contributors to gender identity.