Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre

Description: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction by Darko Suvin, Gerry Canavan, Raffaella Baccolini, Joachim Fischer, Michael Griffin, Michael G. Kelly, Tom Moylan Back in print for the first time since the 1980s, this book is a touchstone for literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Alongside the 1979 text, this edition contains three additional essays by Suvin that update and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvins paradigm-setting definition of SF as "the literature of cognitive estrangement" established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvins centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one, showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined. 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 that situate the book in the context of the decades of SF studies that have followed in its wake. Author Biography Darko Suvin, scholar, critic and poet, was born in Yugoslavia, studied at the universities of Zagreb, Bristol, the Sorbonne and Yale and has taught in Europe and North America. He is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of numerous books and articles on literature and dramaturgy, culture, utopian and science fiction and political epistemology, as well as three volumes of poetry. In recent years he has been writing mainly about SFR Yugoslavia and communism. Gerry Canavan is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. His research focuses on the relationship between science fiction and the political and cultural history of the post-war period, with special emphasis on ecology and the environment. He is an editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television, as well as the author of Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler (2016). Table of 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 apek, 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. Review "Peter Lang has done a great job in bringing this book back into print [...]."(Andrew M. Butler, Review Quote This book marked the beginning of theoretically sophisticated science fiction criticism; it changed the whole field, and remains a startling introduction to a discussion that has not ended since its first appearance. (Kim Stanley Robinson, author of 2312 and Aurora) Suvins classic book is not only a fundamental history of science fiction which deprovincializes our rather narrow and English-language view of the canon; it is also a powerful theoretical intervention in the criticism and theory of the genre, which reunited it with the traditions of utopia as a genre. Not only did this paradigm shift transform our relationship to the latter, it also restored a political and social content to science fiction itself, making of the latter an implicit or explicit Brechtian estrangement-effect. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is thereby an indispensable companion to the study of both genres, which durably integrates them into literary history and theory as such. (Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University) Details ISBN3034319487 Author Tom Moylan Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Series Ralahine Utopian Studies Year 2016 ISBN-10 3034319487 ISBN-13 9783034319485 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-03-28 Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Place of Publication Pieterlen Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations 10 Short Title METAMORPHOSES OF SCI FIC Language English Media Book Series Number 18 DEWEY 808.838762 Subtitle On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre Edited by Gerry Canavan UK Release Date 2016-03-28 Pages 472 Edition Description New edition Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135212670;

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