Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia (Repost)
Patrick Parrinder, "Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia"
2001 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 0822327732, 0853235740 | PDF | 2,6 mb
2001 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 0822327732, 0853235740 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Learning from Other Worlds provides both a portrait of the development of science fiction criticism as an intellectual field and a definitive look at the state of science fiction studies today. Its title refers to the essence of “cognitive estrangement” in relation to science fiction and utopian fiction—the assertion that by imagining strange worlds we learn to see our own world in a new perspective. Acknowledging an indebtedness to the groundbreaking work of Darko Suvin and his belief that the double movement of estrangement and cognition reflects deep structures of human storytelling, the contributors assert that learning-from-otherness is as natural and inevitable a process as the instinct for imitation and representation that Aristotle described in his Poetics.
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