Abstract

This article analyzes the characterization of steampunk and its problems based on the prominence given to semantic and referential criteria in the analysis of non-mimetic literature. To this end, the text reflects on the notion of uchronia and its adaptation to different examples of steampunk works, before offering a thematological analysis proposal focused on the prominence of the techno-mechanical artifact—and on the affective relationship and fetishistic with it—inspired by the First Industrial Revolution as a defining feature of the genre.

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