THE EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCT OF THE FUTURE IN ORWELL’S 1984. AND CROATIAN SCIENCE FICTION IN THE 2000s

Липар 82 (2023) (стр. 85-106)

АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić

Е-АДРЕСА / E-MAIL: klevac@unizd.hr

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DOI: 10.46793/LIPAR82.085KL

САЖЕТАК / ABSTRACT:

In this paper, two works of science fiction, distanced from each other both spatially and tem- porally (as they belong to different national literatures) are analysed: Orwell’s novel 1984 and Darko Macan’s and Tatjana Jambrišak’s short story „Besmrtni slučaj“ (“An Immortal Case”), as an example of Croatian science fiction from the 2000s. This research is focused on the ways in which these respective authors textually construct emotions within the framework of a fictional perspectivisation of the future. Contemporary constructivist approaches to the emotions show that they are an important part of cognitive processes and also culturally conditioned entities. This work proves that emotional constructs of the future can be taken into consideration when dealing with the basic genre characteristics of science fiction. This means that they participate in the creation of a conceptual breakthrough of the paradigm of our episteme, that they are  a part of cognitive estrangement, or of the fictional novum validated by epistemic logic. Thus, this topic, when approaching science fiction, despite the national literature or period to which such a work may belong, may contribute to further research regarding the possible cultural conditions of the emotions of the future, as well as furthering knowledge on the characteristics of the genre of modern science fiction.

КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:

literary emotionology, emotions, emotional constructs, science fiction, Orwell, Macan, Jambrišak, cognitive estrangement, conceptual breakthrough, fictional novum

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