Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: PLOTZ F OUR decades ago, Darko Suvin floated a scholarly approach to sci- ence fiction that largely still prevails, emphasizing the genre's reliance, stretching back beyond Jules Verne to Mary Shelley and beyond, on a technological "novum." 1 Suvin emphasized the capacity of science fiction to challenge readers' conceptual norms by way of what (in a Shklovskyian vein) he called "cognitive estrangement."Most critical debate in the intervening years has focused on his account of the "cognitive estrangement" itself: including Seo-Young Chu's recent provocative notion that "science fiction is a representational technology powered by a combination of 854 VLC • VOL.
Source: Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: John Plotz
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4230198017