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Metamorphoses of Science Fiction - On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (Paperback, New edition)
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Metamorphoses of Science Fiction - On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies, 18
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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 Suvin's 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. Suvin's
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.
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