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Nowhere somewhere : writing, space and the construc tion of utopia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : U Porto Editorial, 2006.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; PART I
  • Lands Beyond the Sea / The Other Beyond the Sea: Ancient to Early Modern Utopianism; The Fruit of the Planted Oar: Utopia in the Odyssey; A Cannibal Utopia: On Montaigne's Essays; The Sea, "that Great Utopian Substance": For an Ideal-Maritime History in Portuguese Literature; Shipwreck and Utopia in Colonial Spanish America; PART II
  • Utopian Inclusions and Exclusions: The Ages of (Un)Reason; Spanish Literary Utopias: Omnibona and The Desired Government; Aux Marches du Palais: L'emblème d'une Académie portugaise du XVIIe siècle; Utopianism in The Scarlet Letter.
  • Madness and Utopia in John Ruskin's ThoughtDo the Right Thing? Knowledge and Agency in Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas"; PART III
  • Technological Utopianisms: The Present and the Future; The Ubermensch in the Laboratory: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Communing with Relationships: A Look at the Influence of Nineteenth Century Communes on Utopian Space Travel and Stations; PART IV
  • Contemporary Spaces: Performing / Discussing Utopia; "We Have Studdenly Become Severe": Ernst Bloch as a Critic of Modern Architecture.
  • Utopian Modernism in the Land of the Future: Brasília, the "Capital of Hope"Redesigning Utopia for the Twenty-First Century? Reflections on Current Projects of Urban Regeneration in the United Kingdom; Constructing, Performimg and Unsettling Utopia: Geographies of Built Space at the Hundertwasser-Haus, Vienna; The Imaginary Space of Wishful Other: Thomas Hirschhorn's Cardboard Utopias; Spatialising Resistance
  • Resisting Spaces: On Utopias and Heterotopias; Antinomy Perfected: Everyday Life Utopia in Situationist Politics of Space; Utopie / Terre / Sôma.