...modern novels. Darko Suvin has chosen to define science fiction by redefining realism: "SF is, then, a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...alternative to the author's empirical environment." 15 Essentially, we mean the same thing. While they share much in common when set against realism, science...

...defamiliarized subject is then understood on a more rational basis. Suvin states that science fiction is a genre "whose necessary and sufficient conditions are...device is an imaginative framework alternative to the 89 author's empirical environment. "'* In this view the defamiliarizing locus of action in science...

...feminist science fiction do not adhere to Darko Suvin's well-known definition of science fiction as "a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...device is an imaginative framework alternative to the authors' empirical environment" (Suvin, 7-8). The depictions of reproductive technology in feminist...

...Dhalgren science fiction, one might appeal to Darko Suvin's suggestive description of science fiction as "a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition."1 Unfortunately, in practice the key terms in the definition most often stand in an antagonistic...

...in the midst of your question, "definition," in terms of SF. And on page 7, he writes, "SF is, then, a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition. . . ." It is, of course, those words "necessary" and "sufficient" that make this a proposed definition....

...steder i Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: SF is, then, a literary genre whose necessary and suficcient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement...imaginative framework alternative to the author's empirical environment.12 It is distinguished by the narrative dominance or hegemony of a fictional "novum" (novelty,...

...4. Darko Suvin's very influential study of the poetics of science fiction defines the genre as one "whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the...presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition" (7-8). 5. By "post-creolian," I mean the age of "heteroglossia" in the cyborgian and post-colonialist...

...elle détermine particulièrement la science-fiction. Danko Suvin, par exemple, la définit comme « a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...alternative to the author's empirical environment-* ». Avec l'aventure de type gothique, l' estrangement et la cognition6 sont justement ce qui m'attire...

...PATRICK PARRINDER SF in general—through its long history in different contexts—can be defined as a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...alternative to the author's empirical environment, and ... it is distinguished by the narrative dominance or hegemony of a fictional 'novum' (novelty,...

...Haven: Yale University Press, 1979) supplies what is probably the most widely cited definition of SF as "a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions...alternative to the author's empirical environment" (7-8). While this definition is in many ways compelling, Suvin uses it to exclude almost all genre...