Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
For a ‘Social’ Theory of Literature and Paraliterature: Some Programmatic Reflections....Pages 3-21
The Significant Context of SF: A ialogue of Comfort against Tribulation....Pages 22-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Science Fiction and Utopian Fiction: Degrees of Kinship....Pages 33-43
Not Only But Also: On Cognition and Ideology in SF and SF Criticism....Pages 44-60
Narrative Logic, Ideological Domination, and the Range of SF: A Hypothesis....Pages 61-73
The SF Novel as Epic Narration: For a Fusion of ‘Formal’ and ‘Sociological’ Analysis....Pages 74-85
On Teaching SF Critically....Pages 86-96
Front Matter....Pages 96-96
Three World Paradigms for SF: Asimov, Yefremov, Lem....Pages 99-111
Philip K. Dick’s Opus: Artifice as Refuge and World View....Pages 112-133
Parables of De-Alienation: Le Gum’s Widdershins Dance....Pages 134-150
On the SF Opus of the Strugatsky Brothers....Pages 151-171
Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun....Pages 172-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
SF as Metaphor, Parable and Chronotope (with the Bad Conscience of Reaganism)....Pages 185-213
Back Matter....Pages 214-227