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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
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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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OLDER SF HISTORY: VERNE, BELLAMY, MORRIS, AND OTHERS (1974-78, 22,500 WORDS)
Two essays deal with: 1/ “Liberalism mutes the Anticipation”, and 2/ “Anticipating the Sunburst”. The text is taken from a first pagination of the 1979 book MOSF and has mistakes. 1/ This chapter 7 of MOSF analyzes first Verne as … Continue reading
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NEWER SF HISTORY: H.G. WELLS (1972-78, 13,400 WORDS)
After a brief Introduction, two essays deal: 1/ with an overview of H.G. Wells’s SF, and 2/ with a depth probe of his general model for SF, adopted in most of it after him. The text is taken from a … Continue reading
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PRELIMINARY THESES ON ALLEGORY (1977, 1,040 words)
Chapter 1. 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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