Scraps of the untainted sky : science fiction, utopia, dystopia /

Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moylan, Tom, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2000]
Colección:Cultural studies series.
Temas:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Dystopies dans la littérature.
Utopies dans la littérature.
utopian literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Science fiction.
Anti-Utopie
Literatur
Science-Fiction-Literatur
Utopie
Science-Fiction
Utopische literatuur.
Dystopie.
Utopies > Dans la littérature.
Dystopies > Dans la littérature.
Science-fiction américaine > Histoire et critique > 20e siècle.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Science fiction and utopia
  • Dangerous visions
  • Absent paradigms
  • Daring to dream
  • pt. 2. Dystopia
  • New maps of hell
  • The dystopia turn
  • The critical dystopia
  • pt. 3. Dystopian maneuvers
  • Kim Stanley Robinson's other California
  • Octavia Butler's parables
  • Marge Piercy's tale of hope
  • Horizons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Literary bibliography and filmography
  • Index.

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