Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics : Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism

Darko Suvin

ISBN 10: 1800790589 / ISBN 13: 9781800790582

Editore: Peter Lang, NBN International, 2021

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin's critical meditations on sciencefiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium,excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, VictorianScience Fiction, and Defined by a Hollow. From essential programmatic statementscharting the parabolic logic of science fiction and establishing the parameters ofa theoretically supple and rigorously historical SF criticism to confrontations withboth a postmodernist abdication of politics and a 'neutral' sociology of literature,these writings reflect the evolving thought of the preeminent contemporary theorist ofscience fiction. Underpinned by a method of heretical cognition and the steadfastinsistence of utopian possibility, the varied essays, interviews, poems, and polemicspresented here-encompassing four decades of sustained thought on the topic-offer up the affirmation of freedom as the truest horizon of science fiction.

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• Titolo: Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics : Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism
• Editore: Peter Lang, NBN International
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1800790589
• ISBN 13: 9781800790582
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 152 A x 18 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 18 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 494 grammi

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This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin’s critical meditations on science
fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium,
excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, Victorian
Science Fiction, and Defined by a Hollow. From essential programmatic statements
charting the parabolic logic of science fiction and establishing the parameters of
a theoretically supple and rigorously historical SF criticism to confrontations with
both a postmodernist abdication of politics and a “neutral” sociology of literature,
these writings reflect the evolving thought of the preeminent contemporary theorist of
science fiction. Underpinned by a method of heretical cognition and the steadfast
insistence of utopian possibility, the varied essays, interviews, poems, and polemics
presented here―encompassing four decades of sustained thought on the topic―
offer up the affirmation of freedom as the truest horizon of science fiction.