Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (Paperback)

Contents: Estrangement and Cognition ? SF and the Genological Jungle ? Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal, and a Plea ? SF and the Novum ? The Alternative Island ? The Shift to Anticipation: Radical Rhapsody and Romantic Recoil ? Liberalism Mutes the Anticipation: The Space-Binding Machines ? Anticipating the Sunburst: Dream, Vision ? or Nightmare? ? Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition ? The Time Machine versus Utopia as Structural Models for SF ? Russian SF and Its Utopian Tradition ? Karel Capek, or the Aliens Amongst Us ? Science Fiction, Metaphor, Parable, and Chronotope (with the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) ? Considering the Sense of ≪Fantasy≫ or ≪Fantastic Fiction≫: An Effusion* ? Circumstances and Stances: A Retrospect.