HeyJaredThe Cultural Diegetic
I write essays about culture, art, literature, and philosophy! In addition, I host read alongs throughout the year.
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Storytelling in medieval casket panels (opens the original)
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The Franks CasketThe Franks casket is more of a mystery than anything. Depicting scenes from Christian, Jewish, Germanic, and Roman mythology and history, the casket has no clear narrative—no single story—that it wishes to tell. In fact, the casket’s images can be divided into two groups of three: one group of depict Germanic scenes, and the other group depict Mediterranean images. It is highly likely that the casket was produced in an educated Christian milieu, probably in a monastic context—po
Ecology, Dystopia and Environmentalism (opens the original)
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This essay looks at how the terms “ecology” and “dystopia” came to be, and how they manifested themselves in early science fiction (or otherwise speculative fiction).1 I will also explore environmentalism in the way Brian Stableford uses the term in his 2009 essay collection Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Literature. If you’d like to read more about what Stableford explores in his essay collection, you can read my three-part series on narrative strategies
[Pt. 3] Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction (opens the original)
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This is the third and final instalment in a three-part series on the narrative strategies of science fiction. You can read the first part here, and the second part here. In this instalment we’ll take a look at American (and briefly Soviet) science fiction, post-space race science fiction, science fiction TV and movies, as well as spe
[Pt. 2] Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction (opens the original)
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This is the second instalment of a three-part series on narrative strategies in science fiction. The previous instalment can be found here, where I discuss the three principle types of speculative fiction, the mythic past, and the mythic future. In this instalment we’ll be looking at the evolution of science fiction as a genre, from its infancy to its (arguably) golden age.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://su
[Pt. 1] Narrative Strategies In Science Fiction (opens the original)
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I recently read some selected essays from Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction And Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction by Brian Stableford—specifically the titular essay Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction, and Ecology And Dystopia. This post is the first of a three-part instalment on narrative strategies in science fiction.These essays were especially interesting to me as I am writing my own dystopian, mystery science fiction short story. I wanted to learn more about the literary theorie
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