Futurescapes : : space in utopian and science fiction discourses / / edited by Ralph Pordzik.
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 to side-step the...
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| Superior document: | Spatial practices, 9 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Spatial practices ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- The Overlaid Spaces of Utopia
- 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
- ‘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”?1 The Role and Function of Fictive Languages in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction / Dunja M. Mohr
- 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
- Index.