Darko Suvin: 2 books
In Leviathan's Belly
Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In eleven incisive, biting essays, Marxist philosopher Darko Suvin suggests that "capitalism (and all of us in Leviathan's belly) stands today in the presence of Yeats's rough beast advancing toward Bethlehem, that finance capitalism is not simply a stage but a recurrent 'Autumn' signal of transition...
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established...