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Utopian visions and revisions : or the uses of ideal worlds / Artur Blaim.

Title
Utopian visions and revisions : or the uses of ideal worlds / Artur Blaim.
Author
Blaim, Artur,
Publication
  • Frankfurt am Main ; New York, NY : Peter Lang Edition, [2017]
  • ©2017

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285 pages; 22 cm
Summary
The book focuses on different uses of the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia. The author analyses literature, cinema, and rock music, as well as scientific and legal motifs in utopian fiction. He also considers the functions of Jewish characters in early modern utopias and looks at the utopian aspects of scientific claims of literary and cultural theories. Utopian models are also applied to the practice of literature (socialist realism) and current socio-political affairs. Among the texts and films discussed are 'Utopia', 'New Atlantis', 'Gulliver?s Travels', 'Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca', 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', 'A Minor Apocalypse', 'Lord of the Flies', and 'Even Dwarfs Started Small'.
Subject
  • Dystopian fiction > History and criticism
  • Dystopian films > History and criticism
  • Dystopian films
  • Socialist realism in literature
  • Utopias in literature
  • Utopias in mass media
  • Utopias in motion pictures
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Dystopian fiction.
  • Dystopias.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. One Delimiting the Field -- 1. Dystopia, Anti-utopia & Co. Another Modest Proposal -- 2. "In a smaller figure." Theses on Synecdoche and Utopia -- pt. Two Texts and Contexts (I) -- 3. The Question-able Case of The Truly Golden Handbook, No Less Beneficial than Entertaining -- 4. Thomas More's Utopia: A Constructivist View -- 5. Utopia Simplified: Thomas Lupton's Siuqila -- 6. "The Thing which is not." Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Gulliver's Travels -- 7. Signs. Symptoms. Reality: The Quests for Truth in The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca -- pt. Three Texts and Contexts (II) -- 8. Herland/Hisland: A Case of Faulty Intertextuality? -- 9. Gulliver's Fifth Voyage, or Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- pt. Four Themes -- 10. Magic, Proto-Science and Science in Early Modern Utopian Fiction -- 11. Utopian Jews: Constructing the Other -- 12. Cities Are Falling. Images of the End and Their Uses in Dystopian Fiction -- pt. Five In Other Media -- 13. In Praise of Imperfection: Shakespeare's Ambivalent (Anti)Utopianism -- 14. "As if it wasn't a good island": Failed and Forgotten Utopias in the Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding's Lord of the Flies -- 15. Monstrous Carnival: The Metonymic Dystopias in Werner Herzog's Even Dwarfs Started Small -- 16. "Nowhere Plans for Nobody." Visions of Utopia in Popular Music -- pt. Six Utopian Politics: Literary and Otherwise -- 17. 1934 -- The Institution of Utopian Literature -- 18. Scientific Literary Studies. A Polish Utopian Tale -- 19. Science against "Science." The Critical and Utopian Functions of Soviet Semiotics -- 20. Staging Dystopian Past, Deferring Utopian Future: The Polish Way.
Call Number
PN56.U8
ISBN
  • 9783653070941 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9783631702185 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9783631702192 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2016041268
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries