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AGENTIAL ANALYSIS, TYPES, AND THE CLASSICAL CHINESE NOVEL (1983-86, 12,000 words)

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TWO HOLY COMMODITIES: THE PRACTICES OF FICTIONAL DISCOURSE AND EROTIC DISCOURSE (1985, 6,600 words)

Fictional  discourse  and erotic  discourse are approached, following Marx’s Grundrisse, as literary genres that are in capitalism also (often primarily) commodities. Sections: 1. Cognitive Discourse as Commodity: The Novum as Fashion; 2. Press and Sex: A Homology; 3. Cognition and … Continue reading

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CAN PEOPLE BE (RE)PRESENTED IN FICTION?: TOWARDS A THEORY OF NARRATIVE AGENTS AND A MATERIALIST   CRITIQUE BEYOND TECHNOCRACY OR REDUCTIONISM (1985, 14,800 words)

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ON DRAMATURGIC AGENTS AND KRLEŽA’S AGENTIAL STRUCTURE: THE TYPES AS A KEY LEVEL (1984, 7.900 words)

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METAPHORICITY AND NARRATIVITY IN FICTION: THE CHRONOTOPE AS THE DIFFERENTIA GENERICA (1984, 7,000 words)

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TRANSUBSTANTIATION OF PRODUCTION AND CREATION: METAMORPHIC IMAGERY IN THE GRUNDRISSE (1981, 7,050 words)

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A BRIEF VALEDICTORY ON STEPPING DOWN [from editing sf studies] (1981, 1,280 words)

A BRIEF VALEDICTORY ON STEPPING DOWN (1981) 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.chapter 17

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PILGRIM AWARD SPEECH FOR THE SF RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (1979, 630 words)

PILGRIM AWARD SPEECH FOR THE SF RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (1979) 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.chapter 16

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EDITORIAL OF SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES (1979, 6,500 words)

EDITORIAL OF SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES (1979) 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.chapter 14 with Marc Angenot

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NOT ONLY BUT ALSO: REFLECTIONS ON COGNITIONS AND IDEOLOGY IN SF AND SF CRITICISM (1979, 2,150 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.chapter 13

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