Perfect Worlds : Utopian Fiction in China and the West.

Annotation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fokkema, Douwe
Autor Corporativo: Open Access Publishing in European Networks
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Chicago : Amsterdam University Press, Chicago Distribution Center [distributor] Feb. 2012 ;
Temas:
Utopias in literature > History and criticism.
Chinese fiction > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Western and Chinese.
Utopies dans la littérature > Histoire et critique.
Roman chinois > Histoire et critique.
Littérature comparée > Occidentale et chinoise.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Chinese fiction.
Utopias in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Utopia of Thomas More
  • 3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia
  • 4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai
  • 5. Enlightenment Utopias
  • 6. Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China
  • 7. Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias
  • 8. Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or “The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo”
  • 9. Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky’s Dystopian Foresight
  • 10. When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics …
  • 11. Bellamy’s Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland
  • 12. Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress
  • 13. H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia
  • 14. Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism
  • 15. Mao Zedong’s Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response
  • 16. Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I
  • 17. Concluding Observations
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Names

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