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...
| Други автори: | Pordzik, Ralph, 1966- (Editor) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Spatial practices ;
9. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=281506 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Futurescapes. |
Съдържание:
- 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.