Speaking of literary criticism (and of criticism of crticism, and of criticism of criticism of criticism), I recently came up on my copy of Northrop Frye's *Anatomy of Criticism*, which I read in college (and marked up in pencil in the margins).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318116.Anatomy_of_Criticism I've been slowly working my way through it. It's very good. jrs On Sep 12, 2014, at 11:58 PM, SS wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 20:03 -0400, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: >> Exactly! Both films addressed technological advances, not social or >> psychological ones. A bit harsh to criticize them because they didn't >> do >> something they hadn't tried to do. > > This is precisely what I am trying to point out. The psychological and > social cannot be divorced from the technological without arriving at > garbage. > > Please don't get upset at my criticism. I did not demand that Sci Fi > should do this or that. I only asked why sociology and anthropology did > not seem to be dealing with these issues and it was on this thread that > I have been informed that Sci Fi writers are dealing with such issues. >
