Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society

Slusser, George; Paul K. Alkon and Roger Gaillard

ISBN 10: 0404642551 ISBN 13: 9780404642556

Editorial: AMS Press, New York, 1999

Idioma: Ingl�s

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Aqua cloth boards with gilt lettering; xxiv, 342 pp. Contents include: Dessine-moi une utopie: le pari du 700e anniversaire / Preface by Roger Gaillard -- Proteus and the Phoenix: Transformations of the Utopian Experience / Introduction by George Slusser. History and Recontextualization -- Practical Hallucinations: Campanella's Citt� del sole / jean-Pierre Barricelli -- Engendering Utopias: Examples from Eighteenth-Century England / Alessa Johns -- Utopia and the French Romantic Imagination / Ceri Crossley -- Fantasies on the Fringe: Romatic Concepts of Nationalism in Utopias Set at the Edges of Nineteenth Century Europe / Ellis Shookman -- The Traveler to the Past as Seeker after Utopia / Bud Foote -- Writing Wells's Dream Book: The Utopia and Science Fiction/ James Gunn -- Une contre-utopie anti-communiste: Le Triomphe de L�nine / Joseph Altairac -- Amours en utopie: version russe / Leonid Heller -- Le Suisse est-il utopiste? / Jean-Fran�ois Thomas. Topos: Repositioning Utopia -- Vehicular Utopias of Jules Verne / Arthur B. Evans -- The Influence of Literature on Advertising in the Making of Ephemeral Utopias / Pedro Gallardo-Torrano -- Club Med as Utopia: Antedating the Idyll / Amy Boesky -- From Talmud to Cyberspace: Transcendence at the Interface / David Porush -- Souls on Ice: Cryonics and the Bodily Utopia / George Slusser -- L'Utopie, une formation de l'inconscient / Roger Dadoun. Utopian Dialects -- NoWhere Man: Towards a Poetics of Post-Utopian Characterization / Carol McGuirk -- The Utopian Calendar / Paul Alkon -- The Mines and Quarries of Arcady / K.V. Bailey -- At Play in the Fields of our Ford: Utopian Dystopianism in Atwood, Huxley, and Zamyatin / Laurence davies -- "Even Worse, It Could Be Perfect": Aspects of the Undesirable Utopia in Modern Science Fiction / Edward James -- Gadgetry, Government, Genetics, and God: The Forms of Science Fiction Utopia / Gary Westfahl -- Raymond Ruyer, un philosophe face � l'Utopie / Bertand M�heust -- Louise Michel, une utopiste libertaire? / Rober Bozzetto -- The Handmaid's Tale as a Richian Re-Visioning of 1984 / Jocelyn Harris -- All You Need Is Love?: The Postseparatist Feminist Utopia / Marleen Barr -- L'Utopie ambigue: �rotisme et pouvoir dans quelques utopies f�minines r�centes / Elisabeth Vonarburg -- The Utopian Paradox: On the Necessity of an Impossible Dream / Eric S. Rabkin -- Dystopian Postscript / Paul Alkon -- Index. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Binding is tight.).

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Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society

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AMS Press, New York

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1999

Idioma

Ingl�s

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0404642551

ISBN 13

9780404642556

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Hardcover

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This collection of essays from a conference to celebrate Switzerland's 700th birthday on utopian literature, reassess the ideas of utopia, its history and role in today's world The resulting essays, in English and French re-examine both traditional and new manifestations of utopian thought.

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