Science Fiction as a Representation of Society: Parallels and Intent in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising
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Science Fiction as a Representation of Society: Parallels and Intent in Pierce Brown’s Red RisingAutoria
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Pitarch Santos, Miguel Ángel; Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosData de publicació
2019-10-04Editor
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Science Fiction is a genre often considered not “true” literature or
“true” art by not only the general public, but also many educators. This
is largely due to the fact that their target audience is mostly teenage ... [+]
Science Fiction is a genre often considered not “true” literature or
“true” art by not only the general public, but also many educators. This
is largely due to the fact that their target audience is mostly teenagers
and young adults, which means a bias is built around the genre with the
idea of it not being mature or deep enough for more experienced
consumers. This article aims to dispel that idea by approaching it from
two theoretical fronts, based on literature review: the first serves to
prove that all texts produced by a society are placed within its ideology,
either in line with it or against it. The second follows from the first to
say that, if a text has an ideology informed by the society that spawned
it, it must then, in some way or form, represent it. If a science fiction
text, like most great literary works, has an ideology and is a
representation of the real world, then its status as “true” literature would
depend not on its genre, but on its quality as an art piece. This is the
basis for the last argument to dispel the idea of science fiction being
lesser literature: a study of the case of Red Rising, a currently popular
and very successful series, which is taken as a stand-in for the whole of
the genre. With the intent to prove the theoretical arguments, the
relationship between the world of Red Rising and its ideology is
explored and compared to our real world, successfully drawing a vast
number of similarities. Nonetheless, this text has limitations in length
that preclude it from a wider examination of the book series, which
would indubitably be beneficial for the overall academic discussion of
science fiction as represented by Red Rising and as a genre. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2018/2019
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