Darko Suvin
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Croatian Canadian literary critic
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Darko Suvin's Degrees
- Bachelors English Literature University of Zagreb
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Darko Ronald Suvin is a Canadian academic, writer and critic who became a professor at McGill University in Montreal. He was born in Zagreb, which at the time was in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now the capital of Croatia. After teaching at the Department for Comparative Literature at the Zagreb University, and writing his first books and poems in his native language , he left Yugoslavia in 1967, and started teaching at McGill University in 1968.
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- Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (1979) (584)
- Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1980) (198)
- On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre (1972) (197)
- Positions and presuppositions in science fiction (1988) (123)
- Considering the Sense of “Fantasy” or “Fantastic Fiction”: An Effusion (2000) (32)
- The Technological imagination : theories and fictions (1982) (29)
- Social Discourse Analysis: Outlines of a Research Project (2004) (27)
- Victorian Science Fiction In The Uk: The Discourses Of Knowledge And Power (1983) (19)
- SF: The Other Side of Realism (1973) (18)
- Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia (2016) (17)
- To Brecht and Beyond : Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy (1984) (17)
- Locus, Horizon, and Orientation: The Concept of Possible Worlds as a Key to Utopian Studies* (2016) (13)
- Two Cheers for Essentialism and Totality: On Marx's Oscillation and Its Limits (As Well As on the Taboos of Post-Modernism) (1998) (13)
- To Explain Fascism Today (2017) (11)
- Theses on Dystopia 2001 (2013) (10)
- On cognitive emotions and topological imagination (1994) (9)
- On Metaphoricity and Narrativity in Fiction: The Chronotope as the "Differentia Generica" (1986) (9)
- The Mirror and the Dynamo: On Brecht's Aesthetic Point of View (1967) (9)
- Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition (1975) (9)
- Utopianism from Orientation to Agency: What Are We Intellectuals under Post-Fordism to Do?(1) (1998) (9)
- The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science Fiction (2018) (8)
- On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia 1945–1974, with a Hypothesis about the Ruling Class (2012) (8)
- Approach to Topoanalysis and to the Paradigmatics of Dramaturgic Space (1987) (8)
- Weiss's Marat/Sade and its Three Main Performance Versions (1988) (7)
- On U. K. Le Guin's "Second Earthsea Trilogy" and Its Cognitions: A Commentary (2006) (7)
- Goodbye and Hello: Differentiating Within the Later P.K. Dick (2002) (6)
- Can People Be (Re)Presented in Fiction?: Toward a Theory of Narrative Agents and a Materialist Critique beyond Technocracy or Reductionism (1988) (6)
- Living labour and the labour of living: a little tractate for looking forward in the twenty-first century (2004) (5)
- H.G. Wells and modern science fiction (1977) (5)
- Fifteen theses about communism and Yugoslavia, or the two-headed Janus of emancipation through the State: (Metamorphoses and anamorphoses of ‘On the Jewish Question’ by Marx) (2015) (5)
- Terms of power, today: an essay in political epistemology (2006) (5)
- On the horizons of epistemology and science (2010) (5)
- Parables and Uses of a Stumbling Stone (2017) (5)
- Russian science fiction, 1956-1974 : a bibliography : original books, translated books, and an annotated checklist of criticism, with an appendix on criticism of Russian SF before 1956 (1976) (5)
- On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF (1992) (4)
- Novum Is as Novum Does (2000) (4)
- Reflections on Happenings (1970) (4)
- Bureaucracy: a Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Before 1941) (2012) (4)
- Parables of De-Alienation: Le Gum’s Widdershins Dance (1988) (4)
- Heavenly food denied: Life of Galileo (1994) (4)
- La science-fiction et la jungle des genres. Un voyage extraordinaire (1973) (4)
- Beckett's Purgatory of the Individual or the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics: Notes for an Incamination towards a Presubluminary Exagmination Round Beckett's Factification (1967) (3)
- Science Fiction and Utopian Fiction: Degrees of Kinship (1988) (3)
- Splendours and Miseries of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1945–74) (2013) (3)
- The Arrested Moment in Benjamin's “Theses”: Epistemology vs. Politics, Image vs. Story (2001) (3)
- Criticism of the Strugatskii Brother's Work (1972) (3)
- On the Poetics of the (2008) (3)
- Narrative Logic, Ideological Domination, and the Range of SF: A Hypothesis (1988) (3)
- Science Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1973-1975 (1976) (3)
- Utopia or Bust: Capitalocene, Method, Anti-Utopia (2021) (3)
- From the Archeology of Marxism and Communism: Two Essays in Political Epistemology (2013) (3)
- Lukacs: Horizons and Implications of the "Typical Character" (1986) (3)
- Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks: War and Militarism in U.S. Science Fiction, Part 2 (2007) (2)
- The Soul and the Sense: Meditations on Roland Barthes on Japan (à propos of L'Empire des signes) (1991) (2)
- Polity or disaster : from individualist self toward personal valencies and collective subjects (1994) (2)
- Communism Can Only Be Radical Plebeian Democracy: Remarks on the Experience of S. F. R. Yugoslavia and on Civil Society (2016) (2)
- IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE TODAY: APARTHEID OR CIVIL COHABITATION? (2008) (2)
- Lessons from the Russian Revolution and Its Fallout: An Epistemological Approach* (2018) (2)
- Death into Life: For a Poetics of Anti-Capitalist Alternative (2012) (2)
- The Prescience of Lucio Magri (2015) (2)
- Counter-Projects: William Morris and the Science Fiction of the 1880s (1990) (2)
- Philip K. Dick’s Opus: Artifice as Refuge and World View (1988) (2)
- Happenings: An Exchange (1970) (2)
- On Brecht's “the manifesto”: Comments for readers in english (2002) (2)
- What Is To Be Done? A First Step* (2016) (2)
- Besinnung and What May the Century Amount To: On or About or Because of Marc Angenot as Goad and Stimulus (2004) (2)
- From Mallarmé's Purification to Kung Fu-Tse's Rectification of Terms : Pictures from an Epistemological Exhibition (2008) (1)
- Disputing the Deluge (2021) (1)
- On Dramaturgic Agents and Krleza's Agential Structure: The Types as a Key Level (1984) (1)
- Significant Themes in the Criticism of Soviet Science Fiction to 1965 (1970) (1)
- Words and lesions: epistemological reflections on violence and lessons of the 1968 moment (with particular reference to Japan) (2020) (1)
- Three World Paradigms for SF: Asimov, Yefremov, Lem (1988) (1)
- Some Differentiations within the Concepts of ‘Myth’ (2007) (1)
- On the SF Opus of the Strugatsky Brothers (1988) (1)
- SF as Metaphor, Parable and Chronotope (with the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) (1988) (1)
- Stanley Weinbaum: We've Met The Aliens and They Are Us (2011) (1)
- Politics: What may the twentieth century amount to: initial thesis (2002) (1)
- "Utopian" and "Scientific": Two Attributes for Socialism from Engels (2011) (1)
- A Selected Brecht Bibliography (1968) (1)
- “The Suvin Event” (Gerry Canavan) (2016) (1)
- Revelation vs. Conflict: A Lesson from No Plays for a Comparative Dramaturgy (1994) (1)
- The SF Novel as Epic Narration: For a Fusion of ‘Formal’ and ‘Sociological’ Analysis (1988) (1)
- The Literary Opus of the Strugatskii Brothers (1974) (1)
- Preface to the First Edition (1979) (2016) (1)
- Forms Open to Life (2014) (1)
- Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four Today: Genius and Tunnel Vision (2020) (1)
- To Laputa and back: a missing chapter of Gulliver's Travels To the memory of Edward Said, citizen-scholar (2005) (1)
- Transubstantiation of Production and Creation: Metamorphic Imagery in the Grundrisse (2011) (1)
- Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks : War and Militarism in US Science Fiction (Overview in Lieu of Introduction) (2004) (1)
- Three poems doubting Mikhail Mikhailovich Sensei (or do they (1990) (0)
- Index of Proper Names of Historical Persons (2016) (0)
- Acknowledgements for the First Edition (1979) (2016) (0)
- On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia (2016) (0)
- Notes for Illuminating Freedom and Knowledge in Das Kapital: Aristotle, Leibniz, and Spinoza (2021) (0)
- Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun (1988) (0)
- What Has Been and What Could Have Been (2016) (0)
- Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, or the View from the Workers (2016) (0)
- On the Epistemology and Pragmatics of Intercultural Theatre Studies (2001) (0)
- Organizational Mediation: The Paris Commune Theatre Law (1969) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2013) (0)
- Recent Studies of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1985) (0)
- Tommaso Di Francesco. Breviario jugoslavo: Colloqui con Predrag Matvejević. Manifestolibri, 2018. — 112 pp. (2020) (0)
- What and How Are Poets for in Our Age of Want: Cognition, Emancipation, Communism (2018) (0)
- Science and Marxism, Scientism and Marquit (2011) (0)
- REVIEW OF STEVEN SCHWEITZER, READING UTOPIA IN CHRONICLES (2008) (0)
- Preface to the Classics Edition: Contradiction and Resistance (2016) (Darko Suvin) (2016) (0)
- Thus Spake the Bitter Muse: Do Not Profit by the Blood of Your Fellows! (2020) (0)
- Additional Material (2016) (2016) (0)
- A UTOPIAN IN THE BALKANS (2018) (0)
- In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-Management (2016) (0)
- THE DISCOURSE ABOUT BUREAUCRACY AND STATE POWER IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY YUGOSLAVIA 1945-1974 (II) (2012) (0)
- Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics (2021) (0)
- Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia) (2016) (0)
- Accumulation and Its Discontents (2016) (0)
- Notes on contributors (1989) (0)
- Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events (2016) (0)
- On Teaching SF Critically (1988) (0)
- For a ‘Social’ Theory of Literature and Paraliterature: Some Programmatic Reflections (1988) (0)
- SF THEORY: Internal and External Delimitation and Utopia (Summary) (1977) (0)
- Response to Jack Williamson (1974) (0)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE: Second Supplement to Russian Science Fiction 1956-1974: A Bibliography (1981) (0)
- Introduction: Pro Domo Sua (2016) (0)
- Lessons of Japan: Assayings of Some Intercultural Stances (1996) (0)
- How to Go On: Political Epistemology for Pandemy Times (2020) (0)
- Not Only But Also: On Cognition and Ideology in SF and SF Criticism (1988) (0)
- O poetyce gatunku science fiction (2018) (0)
- Some Thoughts on Metamorphoses: An Interview with Darko Suvin (2020) (0)
- To Remember Stanislaw Lem (2006) (0)
- Vojnovi?'s Dramaturgy and Its European Context (1975) (0)
- Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, or the View from Above (2016) (0)
- On Dramaturgic Agents and Krleža's Agential Structure: The Types as a Key Level (2013) (0)
- Perseus Beheading Medusa (2021) (0)
- Synchrony as Aim and Reference: A Thesis on Parody's Horizons (1996) (0)
- Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities (2016) (0)
- Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY (2016) (0)
- We Had a Classic: Notes for Situating Predrag Matvejević (2018) (0)
- Politics: Inside the whale, or etsi communismus non daretur: reflections on how to live when a truly just society is a necessity but nowhere on the horizon (2007) (0)
- Letter from Darko Suvin (1968) (0)
- The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (2016) (0)
- And yet : seesaws, pivots, and parentheses : reflections on two voices of translation discourse a propos of a haiku by Issa (1993) (0)
- THE HOPE(LESS) PRINCIPLE: A RE-APPRAISAL OF DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE IN RELATION TO SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES AND SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY (2011) (0)
- Jodi Dean’s Comrade (2020) (0)
- We had a classic: notes defining Predrag Matvejević (2020) (0)
- The Significant Context of SF: A ialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1988) (0)
- Acknowledgements for the Classics Edition (2016) (2016) (0)
- Circumstances and Stances (2004) (0)
- Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977 (1978) (0)
- On Understanding Our Needy World through Science Fiction and Utopia/nism: An Epistemological Introduction (2021) (0)
- In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism (2016) (0)
- On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict (2016) (0)
- On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production (2016) (0)
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