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Nostalgia retrofuturystów
Nostalgia in Retrofuturism

Author(s): Mariusz M. Leś
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: retrofuturism; science fiction; steampunk; fictional time

Summary/Abstract: Science fiction novels are chronologically located where multiple time references intersect. Future dominates the semantics of the novel whereas past reference organizes the grammar of the narrative. Nostalgic retrofuturism explicitly demonstrates the tensions between various time modes, and as a result it shows a vision of “the future which has never happened”.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 143-151
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish