Learning from Other Worlds Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia

Name: Learning from Other Worlds Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia
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ISBN: 9780822327738

ISBN-10: 0822327732

ISBN-13: 9780822327738

Edition: 2001

Authors: Patrick Parrinder, Marleen Barr, Stanley Fish, Peter Fitting, Carl Freedman

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.80" wide x 8.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Introduction: Learning from Other Worlds




Science Fiction and Utopia: Theory and Politics


Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism



Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction



"Look into the dark": On Dystopia and the Novum



Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview



Society After the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International




Science Fiction it its Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Contexts


From the Images of Science to Science Fiction



Estranged Invaders: The War of the Worlds



"A part of the... family[?]": John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography



Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem



"We're at the start of a new ball game and that's why we're all real nervous": Or, Cloning—Technological Cognition Reflects Estrangement from Women



"If I find one good city I will spare the man": Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy



Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes



Darko Suvin: Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction


Bibliography


Index