Lectio praecursoria: Imaginative, Immersive and Interactive Engagements. The Rhetoric of Worldbuilding in Contemporary Speculative Fiction

Abstract

Hanna-Riikka Roine (PhD in spe) defended her doctoral dissertation Imaginative, Immersive and Interactive Engagements. The Rhetoric of Worldbuilding in Contemporary Speculative Fiction on the 27th of August 2016. This essay is a slightly edited version of the lectio praecursoria given by Roine before the defense. The dissertation has been published in the Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis 1695 series (Tampere University Press 2016, ISBN 978-952-03-01958, ISSN 1456-954X): https://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/99583.

Keywords

• speculative fiction
• worldbuilding
• transmediality
• narratology
• rhetoric