Classical Studies 3800F Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Darko Suvin, Bertolt Brecht, John Clute

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3800F
• Professor: Kyle Gervais

Document Summary

1600 or so, and no genre of written literature, before about the early 19th century, seems to have been constituted so as deliberately to confront or contradict the. Darko suvin: born in croatia in 1930, moved to mcgill in 1968. Immediately started teaching the first canadian university course on science fiction: he is most famous for defining science fiction as the literature of cognitive estrangement. Darko suvin, metamorphoses of science fiction (page 18: the effect of such factual reporting of fictions is one of confronting a set normative system with a point of view or look implying a new set of norms. In literary theory this is known as the attitude of estrangement: this concept was first developed on non-naturalistic texts by the russian. Fantasy"s appeal is to uncertain social classes or fractions who have been cast. Fordism this no longer ensures entry into the professional-managerial class. 1960s and 1970s, but his work quickly became important and influential in north.