Author Archives: darkosuvin
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
METAPHORICITY AND NARRATIVITY IN FICTION: THE CHRONOTOPE AS THE DIFFERENTIA GENERICA (1984, 7,000 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
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
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
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