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Futurescapes : space in utopian and science fiction discourses /
"This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia . It intends to 'map out' on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Spatial practices ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the overlaid spaces of utopia / Ralph Pordzik
- ch. I. Constructing borders, defining limits : the ideal space of utopia revisited. The translation of paradise : Thomas More's Utopia and the poetics of cultural exchange / Gabriela Schmidt ; Utopia, nation-building, and the dissolution of the nation-state around 1900 / Hans Ulrich Seeber ; Discoveries of the future : Herbert G. Wells and the eugenic utopia / Richard Nate ; Persistence of obedience : theological space and ritual conversion in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Ralph Pordzik
- ch. II. Homely spaces, intimate borders : utopias to live in. 'And is not every manor a little common wealth?' : nostalgia, utopia and the country house / Nicole Pohl ; The watchdogs of Eden : Chesterton and Buchan look at the present of the future / Christoph Ehland ; The land that time forgot : fictions of Antarctic temporality / Elizabeth Leane ; "The tower of babble"? : the role and function of fictive languages in utopian and dystopian fiction / Dunja M. Mohr
- ch. III. Worlds beyond worlds : the limits of geographical and perceptual space. Rethinking deterritorialization : utopian and apocalyptic space in recent American fiction / Martina Mittag ; Space construction as cultural practice : reading William Gibson's Neuromancer with respect to postmodern concepts of space / Doreen Hartmann ; Peripheral cosmopolitans : Caribbeanness as transnational utopia? / Saskia Schabio ; "Utopian and cynical elements" : Chaplin, cinema, and Weimar critical theory / Antonis Balasopoulos.