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  2. Dominant narrative - Wikipedia

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    Dominant narratives are often discussed in tandem with counternarratives. This term has been described as an "invisible hand" that guides reality and perceived reality. [2] Dominant culture is defined as the majority cultural practices of a society. [3] Dominant narrative is similar in some ways to the ideas of metanarrative or grand narrative.

  3. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal foundations of fictional characters, are also listed.

  4. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  5. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    The science fiction studies is the critical assessment interpretation, and discussion of science fiction literature, film, TV shows, new media, fandom, and fan fiction. [215] Science fiction scholars study science fiction to better understand it and its relationship to science, technology, politics, other genres, and culture-at-large. [216]

  6. Group mind (science fiction) - Wikipedia

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    The first alien hive society was depicted in H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon (1901) while the use of human hive minds in literature goes back at least as far as David H. Keller's The Human Termites (published in Wonder Stories in 1929) and Olaf Stapledon's science-fiction novel Last and First Men (1930), [5] [6] which is the first known ...

  7. Dominance and submission - Wikipedia

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    For example, the dominant–submissive partnership has been shown in early versions of the Kama Sutra. [9] Not only is it shown in literature but also in the actions of ancient rulers that would participate in sexually sadistic torture, role play, and finally the assertion of their dominance over subjects. Their actions show severe ...

  8. Battle of the sexes in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    The expression ‘battle of the sexes’ was first used by Joanna Russ to refer to science fiction stories dealing with the ‘war of the sexes’ between men and women. . These are stories in which women rebel and take power, and in which there is usually a male hero who, with the help of a ‘feminine’ woman, brings peace to the world and restores bala

  9. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction genre – while science fiction is a genre of fiction, a science fiction genre is a subgenre within science fiction. Science fiction may be divided along any number of overlapping axes. Gary K. Wolfe's Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy identifies over 30 subdivisions of science fiction, not including science fantasy ...