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A, B AND C: THE SIGNIFICANT CONTEXT OF SF: A DIALOGUE OF COMFORT AGAINST TRIBULATION (1973, 3,670 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 6
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DEFINING THE LITERARY GENRE OF UTOPIA: SOME HISTORICAL SEMANTICS, SOME GENOLOGY, A PROPOSAL, AND A PLEA (1973, 9,300 words)
For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than … Continue reading
SF AND THE GENOLOGICAL JUNGLE (1973, 7,700 words)
Thanks to the Greeks, we can distinguish tragedy from comedy in drama. […] When we come to deal with such forms as the masque, opera, movie, ballet, puppet-play, mystery-play, morality, corn-media dell’arte, and Zauberspiel, we find ourselves in the position … Continue reading
CRITICISM OF THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS’ WORK (1972, 3,950 words)
First published in a much longer version in Canadian-American Slavic Studies 6.2: 286-307. , 1972 My original longish 1972 essay, to which the reader is respectfully referred, used a bibliography of 96 units of criticism for a survey of the … Continue reading
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AGAINST COMMON SENSE: LEVELS OF SF CRITICISM (1972, 3,350 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 5
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REFLECTIONS ON HAPPENINGS + APPENDIX: HAPPENINGS: AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN LEE BAXANDALL AND DARKO SUVIN (1970, 13,200 words)
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THE SF NOVEL IN 1969 (1970, 3,715 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 4
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SIGNIFICANT THEMES IN SOVIET CRITICISM OF SCIENCE FICTION TO 1965 (1969, 2,875 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 3.
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