With full steam. Guide to steampunk

Patrik Baka L.

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: X , Issue 1, 2015, p. 57-92., ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2015.10.1.57-92

Abstract:

This paper focuses on the interlocking questions of the genre of alternate history and the steampunk subgenre. The first and longest part deals with the genre theory of steampunk. It starts with the definition of the subgenre, continues with the analysis of the inter-genre connections of steampunk, and ends with the introduction of the initial works of the subgenre. The study is based on literature available for the most part in English, and since no contribution has been made on the topic in Hungarian yet, the paper seems to fill in a crucial gap of the field.

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