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Metamorphoses of science fiction : on the poetics and history of a literary genre

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Data Type :	단행본
ISBN :	9783034319485
Class No. :	809.38762
Personal Author :	Suvin, Darko, 1930-.
Title/Author :	Metamorphoses of science fiction : on the poetics and history of a literary genre / Darko Suvin ; edited by Gerry Canavan.
Imprint :	Oxford : Peter Lang, c2016.
Format :	l, 465 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Total Title Note :	Ralahine utopian studies,= 1661-5875 ; volume 18
Total Title Note :	Ralahine classics
General Notes :	New edition of the 1979 book enlarged by three essays.
Note :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Note :	Machine generated contents note: I. POETICS -- 1. Estrangement and Cognition -- 2. SF and the Genological Jungle -- 3. Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal, and a Plea -- 4. SF and the Novum -- II. HISTORY -- Introduction to Older SF History -- 5. Alternative Island -- 6. Shift to Anticipation: Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil -- 7. Liberalism Mutes the Anticipation: The Space-Binding Machines -- 8. Anticipating the Sunburst: Dream, Vision -- or Nightmare? -- Introduction to Newer SF History -- 9. Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition -- 10. Time Machine versus Utopia as Structural Models for SF -- 11. Russian SF and Its Utopian Tradition -- 12. Karel Capek, or the Aliens Amongst Us -- Bibliography -- ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (2016) -- 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.
General Subject Name :	Science fiction -- History and criticism. --
General Subject Name :	Literary form. --
Personal Author :	Canavan, Gerry.
Language	English