Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West /

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"Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Chinese fiction > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Western and Chinese.
Utopias in literature.
Utopias.
Utopias
Roman chinois > Histoire et critique.
Littérature comparée > Occidentale et chinoise.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Utopies.
utopian literature.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: general.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Chinese fiction.
Literatur
Utopie
China
Westliche Welt
Multi-User.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress: H.G. Wells and the Modern Utopia
  • Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism
  • Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response
  • Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I
  • Concluding Observations.

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