標題: | The Horror of Dasein: Reading Steele's "The Days Between" |
作者: | Lee, Chia Yi 外國語文學系 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures |
公開日期: | 1-三月-2011 |
摘要: | "The Days Between" is a story that appears as the second chapter of the novel Coyote, written by American science fiction writer Allen Steele. It tells of a man, Gillis, who lives all alone on a spaceship for 32 years the other crew members being in an extended state of deep sleep or biostasis-and then dies in a random accident, 198 years before the ship will arrive at the planet Coyote. This paper begins from a Heideggerian interpretation of Gillis's existential condition, and then argues that Gillis's unique existence presents a challenge to Heidegger's grounding assumption of a being-in that constitutes both Dasein and its world. In the conclusion, the potential role of science fiction as a literary genre is discussed in relation to Heidegger's own thinking about technology and art, with the suggestion that science fiction may be needed today for its power, a saving one likely, to elicit a responsible response to the pervasive technological instrumentalization. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11536/23512 |
ISSN: | 1729-6897 |
期刊: | CONCENTRIC-LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 1 |
起始頁: | 123 |
結束頁: | 142 |
顯示於類別: | 期刊論文 |