License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenDissertation • April 28th, 2015
Contract Type FiledApril 28th, 2015This dissertation has thus far extensively mapped out the relationship between emotion, science kction, and SF manga, but has yet to clarify specikcally how emotion can add to the Suvinian conception of science kction. While cogni- tive estrangement carries an emotional component for an audience in that it is supposed to be felt in response to the events of a science kctional narrative, this chapter shows how emotion can expand the scope of the novum, position- ing emotion as something capable of developing the “cognitive” in cognitive estrangement on two different levels. First, emotion can act as a means to expe- rience the novum, and second, emotion can become a novum in and of itself. In terms of the former, this comes from the ability for emotion to provide alternative perspectives that aid in the presentation of various non-ideal views of science kctional settings where the story emphasizes the subjective views of its char- acters. The latter, in turn, is based on the idea that e