1990/03/01 by Anthony Wolk · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction #Wonder #Mainstream #George (robot) #Fantasy #The arts #Liberal arts education #Literature #Art history #Art #Philosophy #Epistemology #Higher education #Visual arts #Theology #Law
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mainstream which has never run dry and still flows freely (1987, Address to the College of Arts and Sciences, Portland State U., 28 May). What is undoubtedly true is that writers over the last century and a half have not stopped to wonder what was and what was not literature. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Karl Capek (who gave the word robot to Isaac Asimov)-all have used traditional science-fiction motifs in