Metamorphoses of Science Fiction - Softcover

Suvin, Darko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300023758 ISBN 13: 9780300023756

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, 1979

Synopsis

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction [paperback] Suvin, Darko [Feb 01, 1979]

About this title

About the Author

Darko Suvin, scholar, critic and poet, was born in Yugoslavia, studied at the universities of Zagreb, Bristol, the Sorbonne and Yale and has taught in Europe and North America. He is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of numerous books and articles on literature and dramaturgy, culture, utopian and science fiction and political epistemology, as well as three volumes of poetry. In recent years he has been writing mainly about SFR Yugoslavia and communism.
Gerry Canavan is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. His research focuses on the relationship between science fiction and the political and cultural history of the post-war period, with special emphasis on ecology and the environment. He is an editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television, as well as the author of Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler (2016).

Review

«This book marked the beginning of theoretically sophisticated science fiction criticism; it changed the whole field, and remains a startling introduction to a discussion that has not ended since its first appearance.»
(Kim Stanley Robinson, author of 2312 and Aurora)

«Suvin’s classic book is not only a fundamental history of science fiction which deprovincializes our rather narrow and English-language view of the canon; it is also a powerful theoretical intervention in the criticism and theory of the genre, which reunited it with the traditions of utopia as a genre. Not only did this paradigm shift transform our relationship to the latter, it also restored a political and social content to science fiction itself, making of the latter an implicit or explicit Brechtian estrangement-effect. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is thereby an indispensable companion to the study of both genres, which durably integrates them into literary history and theory as such.»
(Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University)

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0300023758
• ISBN 13: 9780300023756
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336