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Author:

Suvin, Darko, 1930-

Title:

Metamorphoses of science fiction : on the poetics and history of a literary genre / Darko Suvin.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

1979

Description:

xviii, 317 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Science fiction--History and criticism.
Literary form.
Science-fiction--Histoire et critique.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 285-309. Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction to newer SF history: Karel Čapek, or the aliens among us. 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 -- 2. History: Introduction to older SF history: 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? -- Introduction to newer SF history: 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 Čapek, or the aliens among us.

ISBN:

9780300023756
0300023758
9780300022506
0300022506

LCCN:

78006265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)