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THE SCIENCE-FICTION NOVEL AS EPIC NARRATION: FOR A FUSION OF ‘FORMAL’ AND ‘SOCIOLOGICAL’ ANALYSIS (1980-1985, 5,530 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.ch19
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PLAYFUL COGNIZING, OR TECHNICAL ERRORS IN HARMONYVILLE: THE SF OF JOHANNA AND GÜNTER BRAUN (1981 AND 1987, 3,870 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.
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SCIENCE FICTION: METAPHOR, PARABLE, AND CHRONOTOPE (WITH THE BAD CONSCIENCE OF REAGANISM) (1984, 12,120 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.ch22
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NARRATIVE LOGIC, IDEOLOGICAL DOMINATION, AND THE RANGE OF SCIENCE FICTION: A HYPOTHESIS WITH A TEST CASE (1982, 8,370 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.ch21
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A DISCUSSION OF STANISŁAW LEM’S SF RADIO-DRAMA DO YOU EXIST MR. JOHNS? (1982, 1,390 words)
A DISCUSSION OF STANISŁAW LEM’S SF RADIO-DRAMA DO YOU EXIST MR. JOHNS? (1982)
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[REVIEW ARTICLE] NO-THEATER: SZENE UND DRAMATURGIE, VOLKS- UND VÖLKERKUNDLICHE HINTERGRUNDE (1991)
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BRECHT’S “LIFE OF GALILEO”: SCIENTISTIC EXTRAPOLATION OR ANALOGY OF THE KNOWER? (1988-90, 11,370 words) [from book DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS]
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TWO INTERVENTIONS ON BODIES (1989, 7,800 words)
Discourses about the body are followed through Bakhtin, Hobbes, Freud, and Foucault to an updating of Marxism, arguing against bourgeois individualism that subject is a limit-zone of collective bodies. A viable materialist but dialectical theory of the body, and consequently … Continue reading
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