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Utopian Effects, Dystopian Pleasures
Av Peter Fitting, Brian Greenspan
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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This collection brings together for the first time Peter Fitting’s writings about the utopian impulse as expressed in science fiction, fantasy, cinema, architecture, and cultural theory. These wide-ranging essays trace the constant reconsideration of the utopian project itself over the past four …
English Utopia
Av A.L. Morton, Antonis Balasopoulos
Häftad, 2023
673 kr
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«Antonis Balasopoulos is to be heartily thanked for bringing back into print A. L. Morton’s marvelous book The English Utopia – and for providing us with not only a useful and insightful Introduction, but also a comprehensive bibliography of Leslie Morton’s many writings. We definitely need such …
Transgressive Utopianism
Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson
Av Raffaella Baccolini, Lyman Tower Sargent
Häftad, 2021
649 kr
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In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham, she became the first and, so far, only, professor of utopian studies. This choice symbolized the centrality of utopianism to her life, thought, and …
Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics
Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism
Häftad, 2021
585 kr
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This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin’s critical meditations on sciencefiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium,excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, VictorianScience Fiction, and Defined by a Hollow. …
Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics
Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism
Häftad, 2021
567 kr
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This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin’s critical meditations on sciencefiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium,excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, VictorianScience Fiction, and Defined by a Hollow. …
Postcategorical Utopia
James Baldwin and the Political Unconscious of Imagined Futures
Häftad, 2023
673 kr
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«Kilpeläinen’s engaging journey through Baldwin’s postcategorical utopian thought shows how this writer’s under-appreciated later works foresee today’s heated ideological and philosophical debates. From political unconscious to Afrofuturism, this book maps Baldwin’s Black queer wisdom: Labels and …
Zone Theory
Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds
Häftad, 2023
659 kr
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«This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world’s situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political …
Rebirth of Utopia in 21st-Century Cinema
Cosmopolitan Hopes in the Films of Globalization
Häftad, 2023
602 kr
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«Given that most scholarship on cinema and utopia focuses on the subgenre of dystopia and its pessimistic discourses, Mónica Martín’s volume could not be more timely. It is a pioneering work; arguably the first book in English devoted to systematically analysing the utopian impulse as a textual …
Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism
The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited and Other Essays
Häftad, 2022
585 kr
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«These influential essays by one of the world’s leading experts in the field revisit the central methodological debates in Utopian Studies over the past half century. They include recent commentary on the development of key disagreements respecting the concepts of utopia, eutopia and dystopia, as …
Terrestrial Ecotopias
Multispecies Flourishing in and Beyond the Capitalocene
Av Heather Alberro, Michael G. Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
673 kr
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«A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro’s Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.»(Jason W. Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of Life)«Utopia is here and now, with our feet on the ground …
American Nightmares
Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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«Valentina Romanzi’s study is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the complex and rich debate on the question of genres and subgenres, while at the same time offering a fresh …
Obsolete Necessity
America in Utopian Writings, 1888–1900
Av Ken Roemer, Michael G. Kelly
Häftad, 2024
673 kr
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«The republication of Ken Roemer’s 1976 classic reaffirms how necessary, and non-obsolete, this book and expressions of utopia remain. Roemer’s engaging introduction reviews the career of a foundational scholar-teacher, and reassesses the life of a book, written during times of national unrest, …
Hispanic Utopias
A Historical Reader
Av Hugo García, Juan Pro m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
673 kr
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«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to contemporary dreams and dystopias. …
Polyphony of Utopia
Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler
Av Pavla Veselá, Raffaella Baccolini m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
673 kr
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«Through detailed, elegant interpretations of utopian novels produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, Pavla Veselá casts aside standard commonplaces about East / West cultural divergences and reveals the critical function of utopian fiction that is shared in the two national …
Economic Inequality
Utopian Explorations
Av Donald Morris, Raffaella Baccolini m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
673 kr
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«This relevant, clearly defined study isn’t constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in other periods; international …
Thinking through High-Tech Hell
A Theory of the New Media Dystopia
Av Miguel Sebastián-Martín, Michael G. Kelly
Häftad, 2024
585 kr
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«New media determine our dystopian situation. Miguel Sebastián-Martín maps the new media hell. Read this book to understand how SF reproduces our dystopian present and to find the cracks where the light gets in.»(J. Jesse Ramírez, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences)«In Thinking …
Utopian Variations
Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Av Sean Seeger
Häftad, 2025
652 kr
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Utopian Variations is a comparative critical study of a variety of kinds of utopia and utopian discourse. Rather than focusing on more familiar forms of utopia, the book considers utopia in relation to a range of topics that have received less attention within utopian studies, including literary …
Figures of Utopia
Literature, Politics, Philosophy
Häftad, 2026
659 kr
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This volume examines the concept of the utopic figure, focusing on the textual procedures through which utopian texts negotiate the limits of the imaginable. Drawing from literary theory and criticism, political philosophy, social history, cartography and geography, urban studies and visual …
Imagining and Making the World
Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia
Häftad, 2011
724 kr
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Although the association between architecture and utopia (the relationship between imagining a new world and exploring how its new conditions can best be organized) might appear obvious from within the domain of utopian studies, architects have long attempted to dissociate themselves from utopia. …
Weak Messianism
Essays in Everyday Utopianism
Häftad, 2013
802 kr
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This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown …
Spectre of Utopia
Utopian and Science Fictions at the "Fin de Siècle"
Häftad, 2011
878 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, a spectre haunted Europe and the United States: the spectre of utopia. This book re-examines the rise of utopian thought at the fin de siècle, situating it in the social and political contradictions of the time and exploring the ways in which it articulated a …
Shockwaves of Possibility
Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia
Av Phillip E. Wegner, Raffaella Baccolini m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
557 kr
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Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism …
Demand the Impossible
Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
Av Tom Moylan
Häftad, 2014
661 kr
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Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the …
Partial Visions
Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s
Häftad, 2015
661 kr
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What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American and western European history when the utopian dimension of political movements was particularly …
Gazing in Useless Wonder
English Utopian Fictions, 1516–1800
Av Artur Blaim
Häftad, 2013
961 kr
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Gazing in Useless Wonder focuses on utopias as self-referential texts that literally have to constitute themselves as imaginary or intentional entities before they can work as vehicles for socio-political ideas. Foregrounding the construction of utopian fictions defines both the perspective and the …
Racial Horizon of Utopia
Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels
Häftad, 2015
757 kr
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Race and utopia have been fundamental features of US American culture since the origins of the country. However, racial ideology has often contradicted the ideals of social and political equality in the United States. This book surveys reimaginings of race in major late twentieth-century US …
Children's Voices in Politics
Av Michael S. Cummings, Raffaella Baccolini m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Is the official political silencing of children in a democracy rational and just, or is it arbitrary and capricious? How might democratic polities benefit from the political engagement and activism of young people? Michael Cummings argues that allowing children equal political rights with adults is …
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
Häftad, 2016
763 kr
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Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» …
Utopianism and Marxism
Av Vincent Geoghegan, Joachim Fischer m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
634 kr
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This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting on the work twenty years after publication. The grounding assumption of the book is that an element of utopianism is a necessity in any political thinking, and that a …
Utopia Method Vision
The Use Value of Social Dreaming
Av Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini
Häftad, 2007
672 kr
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Informed by feminist, Marxist, ethnographic, and post-structuralist frameworks, Utopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices.The collection addresses the ways in which the …
