Author Archives: darkosuvin
ON THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS (1974-2003, 9,630 words)
ON THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS:The SF Opus of the Strugatsky Brothers (1974-81 and 1990)An E-Mail to Russia (2003) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: … Continue reading
ROMANCE STUDIES IN GERMANY AND WERNER KRAUSS (2002, 7,300 words)
The relations of Romance Studies and Nazism are discussed on the basis of new publications. The second part discusses the career of Werner Krauss, an unjustly neglected scholar.
ACCESS TO AN IDENTIFICATION OF “TERRORISM”: WORDS AND ACTIONS (2002, 7380 words)
2002, Rethinking Marxism
BRECHT: STANCE, AGENCY, AND EMOTIONS (1989-2002, 15,810 words)
1. On Haltung; 2. Approaching Brecht and Agency; 3. Emotions Are Not Split from Cognition; 4. Emotions Intertwining with Haltung as Basis for Acting
BESINNUNG; AND WHAT MAY THE CENTURY AMOUNT TO: ON OR ABOUT OR BECAUSE OF MARC ANGENOT AS GOAD AND STIMULUS (2000, 10,450 words)
ON PHILIP K. DICK (1975-2002)
On Philip K. Dick (2 essays): Philip K. Dick’s Opus: Artifice as Refuge and Worldview (1975, 8,060 words)Goodbye and Hello: Differentiating within the Later P.K. Dick (2002, 15,050 words) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions … Continue reading
SF PARABLES OF MUTATION AND CLONING AS/AND COGNITION (2002, 8,760 words)
D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.
CONSIDERING THE SENSE OF “FANTASY” OR “FANTASTIC FICTION”: AN EFFUSION (1999-2001, 21,780 words)
0. Fantasy: Why Bother?; 1. Some Preconditions for Approaching Fantasy; 2. On What Fantastic Fiction Is Not; 3. In medias res: The Genres of Ahistorical Alternative Worlds; 4. Some Dilemmas on Uses and Values of Fantasy.