VOLUME 2(2) • 2019
The creative faculty in romantic poetics and poetry: John Keats
The present research explores the development of John Keats’s poetics, with emphasis on the essential philosophy underlying it, according to which truth is beauty and beauty is truth, poetry is light, and poetic composition is a dynamic quest for love – equivalent with a voyage towards the unknown d..
Mastermind creativity: E. A. Poe’s utopia in The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Poe was fascinated with cryptography and, by extension, with anything that baffles the mind; the enigma of reality was one such stimulating question with many different layers: the cosmic large infinity, the social medium infinity, the atomic small infinity, the human psychological interior infinity..
Edgar Allan Poe’s science fiction: from ancient Egyptian cosmological lore to modern chronobiology
Edgar Allan Poe is now celebrated as the creator of detective fiction and as a major contributor to what is called “proto-science fiction.” The present research focuses largely on his science fiction. Eureka is our starting point, being perhaps the most significant text from a cosmological viewpoint..
Roger Zelazny and Hindu thought (I): Hindu philosophy at a glance
The following paper, presented in two parts, examines the influence of Hindu mythology, religion and philosophy in Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light (1967), a Hugo Award-winning novel (1968) which belongs to what is now known as the “New-Wave SF” – a literary movement of the 1960s, initiated by science-..
Creativity, environment and value: spiritual aesthetics in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri
Starting from the common agreement established in Aurobindo studies that The Life Divine (1914–1919; book form: 1939–1940) was Sri Aurobindo’s (1872–1950) philosophical exploration of his ideals, while Savitri (manuscript form: 1916; separate cantos: 1946; book form: 1950–1951) was the poetic realiz..
James Gunn on modern science fiction
How to cite: Stroe MA (2019) James Gunn on modern science fiction. Creativity 2(2): 319–335. doi:10.22381/C2220196 {downloads}{slider Author's contact} MIHAI A. STROEmihaistroe@yahoo.comFaculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English Department,The University of Bucharest, Romania {/sliders..