O poetyce gatunku science fiction

• Authors: Suvin Darko

Title variants

EN

On the Poetics of Science Fiction Genre

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The first Polish translation of one of the best-known articles on the poetics of science fiction, considered nowadays a must-read reference in the field. In this classical piece, Darko Suvin famously argues in favour of introducing the concept of cognitive estrangement modelled after Viktor Shklovsky’s ostranenie (often questionably rendered as defamiliarisation) as well as Bertolt Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt (as defined in his Kleines Organon für das Theater). Arguing, in due course, for acknowledging the cognitive and epistemological potential of thus defined estrangement, Suvin proceeds to introduce and analyse two distinct models for studying science fiction from both historical and formalist perspective—the extrapolative model and analogic model—which altogether help at outlining features of the most prototypal science fiction. This translation is also supplemented with an addendum from 2014 wherein the author revisits his thoughts from Marxist perspective and ponders on their relevance in reference to a more politically inclined debate in science fiction studies.

Keywords

EN

science fiction; cognitive estrangement; extrapolation; extrapolative model; analogic model

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
• Journal: Creatio Fantastica
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(59)
• Pages: 9-24

Contributors

author

Suvin Darko

• McGill University

translator

Maj Krzysztof M.

• Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza

References

• Brecht Bertolt, Małe organon dla teatru, przekł. Adolf Sowiński, „Pamiętnik Teatralny” 1955, nr 1, s. 39–62.
• Brecht Bertolt, Życie Galileusza, przekł. Roman Szydłowski, w: tegoż, Dramaty, Wrocław: Ossolineum 1976, ss. 141–301.
• Erlich Victor, Russian Formalism: History—Doctrine, Hague: Mouton 1955.
• Fletcher Andus, Allegory, Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1964.
• Frye Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism, New York: Atheneum 1996.
• Suvin Darko, Considering the Sense of ‘Fantasy’ or ‘Fantastic Fiction’, „Extrapolation” 2000, t. 41, nr 3, ss. 209–247.
• Suvin Darko, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre, red. Gerry Canavan, Oxford: Peter Lang 2016.
• Suvin Darko, The Open-Ended Parables of Stanislaw Lem and Solaris, w: Stanisław Lem, Solaris, przekł. Joanna Kilmartin, Steve Cox, New York: Walker 1970.
• Szkłowski Wiktor, Art as Technique, w: Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, red. Lee T. Lemon, Marion J. Reis, Lincoln: Nebraska University Press 1965.
• Todorov Tzvetan, Introduction à la littérature fantastique, Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1970.

Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.3311557