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Author Suvin, Darko, 1930- author.
Title Metamorphoses of science fiction : on the poetics and history of a literary genre / Darko Suvin ; edited by Gerry Canavan.
Publication Info Oxford : Peter Lang, [2016]
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Descript l, 465 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Edition [New edition].
Note "In addition to the 1979 text of the book, this edition contains three additional essays from Suvin that update, expand and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface"--Back cover.
Contents Contents: Estrangement and Cognition - SF and the Genological Jungle - Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal, and a Plea - SF and the Novum - The Alternative Island - The Shift to Anticipation: Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil - Liberalism Mutes the Anticipation: The Space-Binding Machines - Anticipating the Sunburst: Dream, Vision - or Nightmare? - Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition - The Time Machine versus Utopia as Structural Models for SF - Russian SF and Its Utopian Tradition - Karel Capek, or the Aliens Amongst Us - Science Fiction, Metaphor, Parable, and Chronotope (with the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) - Considering the Sense of Fantasy>> or Fantastic Fiction>>: An Effusion* - Circumstances and Stances: A Retrospect.
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9783035307351 (e-book)
9783035307351 (eBook)
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Author Suvin, Darko, 1930- author.
Series Ralahine Utopian Studies, volume 18
Ralahine Utopian Studies, volume 18.
Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Alt author Canavan, Gerry, editor.
Descript l, 465 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Edition [New edition].
Note "In addition to the 1979 text of the book, this edition contains three additional essays from Suvin that update, expand and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface"--Back cover.
Contents Contents: Estrangement and Cognition - SF and the Genological Jungle - Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal, and a Plea - SF and the Novum - The Alternative Island - The Shift to Anticipation: Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil - Liberalism Mutes the Anticipation: The Space-Binding Machines - Anticipating the Sunburst: Dream, Vision - or Nightmare? - Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition - The Time Machine versus Utopia as Structural Models for SF - Russian SF and Its Utopian Tradition - Karel Capek, or the Aliens Amongst Us - Science Fiction, Metaphor, Parable, and Chronotope (with the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) - Considering the Sense of Fantasy>> or Fantastic Fiction>>: An Effusion* - Circumstances and Stances: A Retrospect.
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9783035307351 (e-book)
9783035307351 (eBook)
Author Suvin, Darko, 1930- author.
Series Ralahine Utopian Studies, volume 18
Ralahine Utopian Studies, volume 18.
Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Alt author Canavan, Gerry, editor.

Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Descript l, 465 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Note "In addition to the 1979 text of the book, this edition contains three additional essays from Suvin that update, expand and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface"--Back cover.
Contents Contents: Estrangement and Cognition - SF and the Genological Jungle - Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal, and a Plea - SF and the Novum - The Alternative Island - The Shift to Anticipation: Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil - Liberalism Mutes the Anticipation: The Space-Binding Machines - Anticipating the Sunburst: Dream, Vision - or Nightmare? - Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition - The Time Machine versus Utopia as Structural Models for SF - Russian SF and Its Utopian Tradition - Karel Capek, or the Aliens Amongst Us - Science Fiction, Metaphor, Parable, and Chronotope (with the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) - Considering the Sense of Fantasy>> or Fantastic Fiction>>: An Effusion* - Circumstances and Stances: A Retrospect.
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
Alt author Canavan, Gerry, editor.
ISBN 9783035307351 (e-book)
9783035307351 (eBook)
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