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Author Suvin, Darko, 1930-

Title Defined by a hollow : essays on utopia, science fiction and political epistemology / Darko Suvin
Published Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2010]
©2010
©2010

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Description xxxiii, 582 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Ralahine utopian studies ; v. 6
Ralahine utopian studies ; v. 6
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal, and a Plea (1973) -- ch. 2 "Utopian" and "Scientific": Two Attributes for Socialism from Engels (1976) -- ch. 3 Science Fiction and the Novum (1977) -- ch. 4 Poems of Doubt and Hope 1983-1988 -- ch. 5 Locus, Horizon, and Orientation: The Concept of Possible Worlds as a Key to Utopian Studies (1989) -- ch. 6 On William Gibson and Cyberpunk SF (1989-1991) -- ch. 7 The Doldrums: Eight Nasty Poems of 1989-1999 -- ch. 8 Where are We? How Did We Get Here? is There Any Way Out? Or, News from the Novum (1997-1998) -- ch. 9 Utopianism from Orientation to Agency: What Are We Intellectuals under Post-Fordism to Do? (1997-1998) -- ch. 10 On Cognition as Art and Politics: Reflections for a Toolkit (1997-1999) -- ch. 11 What Remains of Zamyatin's We After the Change of Leviathans? or, Must Collectivism Be Against People? (1999-2000) --
Contents note continued: ch. 12 What May the Twentieth Century Amount To: Initial Theses (1999-2000) -- ch. 13 A Tractate on Dystopia 2001 (2001, 2006) -- ch. 14 Seven Poems from the Utopian Hollow: Diary Notes of 2000-2005 -- ch. 15 Living Labour and the Labour of Living: A Tractate for Looking Forward in the Twenty-first Century (2004) -- ch. 16 Inside the Whale, or etsi communismus non daretur: Reflections on How to Live When Communism is a Necessity but Nowhere on the Horizon (2006-2007) -- ch. 17 Five Farewell Fantasies of 2006-2008 -- ch. 18 Cognition, Freedom, The Dispossessed as a Classic (2007)
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Utopias in literature.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.
LC no. 2010005219
ISBN 9783039114030 (alkaline paper)
3039114034