This book focuses on the analysis of various passages across enclosures and the spacetime continuum in science fiction literature. It provides a rich arsenal of analytical instruments for the study of these very popular concepts in the genre of science fiction, and synthesizes current practical and theoretical approaches in science fiction written by active researchers and practitioners in this field. Taking this into consideration, this book will serve as a bedrock to help educators, researchers and students to conduct their research in the field of literature in general and in science fiction in particular.The volume brings together cutting-edge research in the fields of narrative analysis, literary and linguistic analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics, among others, while the complexity and novelty of the eight essays gathered here offer fresh views on the topic and will stimulate the intellectual curiosity of various readers across different fields of research.
Iren Boyarkina received her PhD from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", with a thesis which focused on the narratives by British science fiction writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon. She has conducted extensive research in English and American science fiction literature, English and American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, feminist literature, cognitive linguistics, and translation studies. She has published a monograph on English and Russian science fiction, as well as works dedicated to Stapledon, Lessing, H.G. Wells, Arthur Clarke, Orwell, Mary Shelley, Anne Tyler, Henry James, Joyce, Dickens, Wharton, Bulgakov, Tolstoi, Yefremov, Belyaev, and Chekhov, among others. She teaches English language and literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the University of Viterbo.
