Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism
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Darko Suvin is Professor Emeritus at McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of essays on topics in utopianism and science fiction, comparative literature, dramaturgy, theory of literature, theatre and cultural theory. He is also the author of three volumes of poetry.
Eric D. Smith is Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope and many essays on postcolonial literature, Modern British literature, and popular cinema.
<p>«For more than five decades, Darko Suvin’s has been the pre-eminent voice in science-fiction criticism; he is the author of the main critical oeuvre with which all other serious work in the field must engage, even if in disagreement. This excellent collection gathers together many of his most important essays, and will be equally important for beginners in SF criticism and for veterans.»
(Carl Freedman, William A. Reid Professor, Louisiana State University)</p>
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<p>«An indispensable collection of some 40 essays by one of the central figures in bringing theoretical rigor and understanding to the criticism of science fiction and utopia.»
(Peter Fitting, Professor Emeritus, Innis College, University of Toronto)</p>
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<p>«<i>Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics </i> is a collection well named. Over the decades traced by these essays’ arguments, we can see science fiction form the lines of Suvin’s curiosity just as much as he has formed our ways of reading it, of responding to its historicity and evasion or embrace of the multiple conflicts embedded within or merely potential within that historicity.»
(Patricia McManus, Senior Lecturer, Center for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton)</p>
CONTENTS: Volume I – It Ain’t Necessarily So: An Introduction – Preliminary Theses on Allegory (1977) – The Moon as a Mirror to Man: Or, Lessons of Selenography (1969) – Significant Themes in Soviet Criticism of Science Fiction to 1965 (1969) – The SF Novel in 1969 (1970) – Against Common Sense: Levels of SF Criticism (1972) – A, B, and C: The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1973) – Four Worries on Science Fiction Contexts (1970–1975) – James Blish, 1921–1975 (1975) – On Philip K. Dick – On Ursula K. Le Guin – On the Strugatsky Brothers – For a Social Theory of Science Fiction: Programmatic Reflections (1977–1988) – (with Marc Angenot) Editorial of Science-Fiction Studies (1979) – (with Marc Angenot) Not Only But Also: Reflections on Cognitions and Ideology in SF and SF Criticism (1979) – Three World Paradigms for SF: Asimov, Yefremov, and Lem (1979–1993) – Pilgrim Award Speech for the SF Research Association (1979) – A Brief Valedictory on Stepping Down (1981) – Volume II – Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun (1981 and 1987) – The Science-Fiction Novel as Epic Narration: For a Fusion of «Formal» and «Sociological» Analysis (1980–1985) – (with Eike Barmeyer and Dieter Hasselblatt) A Discussion of Stanisław Lem’s SF Radio-Drama Do You Exist Mr Johns? (1982) – Narrative Logic, Ideological Domination, and the Range of Science Fiction: A Hypothesis with a Test Case (1982) – Science Fiction: Metaphor, Parable, and Chronotope (With the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) (1984) – On «Post-Modernist» Political Impotence and the Horizons of Fiction and SF: A Response to Professor Fekete’s «Five Theses» (1988) – Science Fiction: A Basic Sketch (1987–1994) – Utopia in the Asian Eighties: Six Songlets (1983–1988) – Visions Off Yamada (1988) – Thinking Worlds of a Liminal Shintoist Cybermarxist: Five Interviews (1987–1995) – Counter-Projects: William Morris and the SF of the 1880s (1988) – We’ve Met the Aliens and They Are Us: Weinbaum’s Parables of Class (1993–2010) – Notes and Memories on Science Fiction – With Sober, Estranged Eyes (1998) – SF Parables of Mutation and Cloning as/and Cognition (2002).
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Darko Suvin is Professor Emeritus at McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of essays on topics in utopianism and science fiction, comparative literature, dramaturgy, theory of literature, theatre and cultural theory. He is also the author of three volumes of poetry.
Eric D. Smith is Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope and many essays on postcolonial literature, Modern British literature, and popular cinema.