| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 17 |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 17.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Learning from Other Worlds; Part One: Science Fiction and Utopia: Theory and Politics; Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism; Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction; 'Look into the dark': On Dystopia and the Novum; Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview; Society After the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International; Part Two: Science fiction in its Social, Cultural and Philosophical Contexts |
| Summary |
A collection of new essays on science fiction and utopian literature honouring the work of Darko Suvin, the scholar and literary theorist who co-founded the journal Science-Fiction Studies in 1973. The title of this volume attempts to convey the essence of?cognitive estrangement? in relation to SF and utopia: that by imagining strange worlds we learn to see our own world in a new perspective. The contributors have all been influenced by Darko Suvin?s belief that the double movement of estrangement and cognition reflects deep structures of human storytelling. Learning from otherness is as natu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Suvin, Darko, 1930- -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Suvin, Darko, 1930- fast |
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Utopie Zusammenstellung gnd |
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Utopias -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Science fiction
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Utopias
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Entfremdung Motiv
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Literatur
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Science-Fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781846313493 |
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184631349X |
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