Utopian Fantasy

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000734722
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Utopian Fantasy by : Richard Gerber

Download or read book Utopian Fantasy written by Richard Gerber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1955 and reissued in 1973, is a study of the flourishing of an ancient literary form which had only recently been recognized and systematically studied as a proper genre – utopian fiction. Beginning with the imaginary journeys of writers like H. G. Wells at the end of the nineteenth century, Professor Gerber traces the evolving themes and forms of the genre through their culmination in the sophisticated nightmares of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. It is a two-fold transformation: On the one hand, the optimism of social reformers whose visions of the future were nurtured by the theories of Darwin and the triumph of science and industry gradually gives way to the pessimism of moral philosophers alarmed at the power science and technology have put at the disposal of totalitarian rulers. On the other hand, the earlier writers’ dependence on framing and distancing devices for their stories and heavy emphasis on technical details give way to the subtlety of complex psychological novels whose artistry makes the reader a citizen of the tragic worlds depicted.

Coleridge To 'catch-22'

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349158852
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Coleridge To 'catch-22' by : John Colmer

Download or read book Coleridge To 'catch-22' written by John Colmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-06-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anatomy of National Fantasy

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226043770
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Anatomy of National Fantasy by : Lauren Berlant

Download or read book The Anatomy of National Fantasy written by Lauren Berlant and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship emerged from an attempt to adjudicate among the official and the popular, the national and the local, the collective and the individual, utopia and history. At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter, analyzing the modes and effects of national identity that characterize the narrator's representation of Puritan culture and his construction of the novel's political present tense. This analysis emerges from an introductory chapter on American citizenship in the 1850s and a following chapter on national fantasy, ranging from Hawthorne's early work "Alice Doane's Appeal" to the Statue of Liberty. In her conclusion, Berlant suggests that Hawthorne views everyday life and local political identities as alternate routes to the revitalization of the political and utopian promises of modern national life.

The Philosopher Kings

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466800836
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis The Philosopher Kings by : Jo Walton

Download or read book The Philosopher Kings written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City, founded by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato's Republic and populated by people from all eras of human history, has now split into five cities, and low-level armed conflict between them is not unheard-of. The god Apollo, living (by his own choice) a human life as "Pythias" in the City, his true identity known only to a few, is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss causes him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes handling it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but it's evident, particularly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he is unhinged with grief. Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteers--including the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean of pre-antiquity to see what they can find—possibly the man who may have caused his great grief, possibly communities of the earliest people to call themselves "Greek." What Apollo, his daughter, and the rest of the expedition will discover...will change everything. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Architecture of Fantasy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Architecture of Fantasy by : Ulrich Conrads

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Habitation of the Blessed

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Publisher : Night Shade
ISBN 13 : 9781597801997
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Habitation of the Blessed by : Catherynne M. Valente

Download or read book Habitation of the Blessed written by Catherynne M. Valente and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brother Hiob, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prestor John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell.

The Seep

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Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290870
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis The Seep by : Chana Porter

Download or read book The Seep written by Chana Porter and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist “A unique alien invasion story that focuses on the human and the myriad ways we see and don’t see our own world. Mesmerizing.” —Jeff VanderMeer A blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter’s fresh, pointed debut explores a strange new world in the wake of a benign alien invasion. Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—but nonetheless world-changing—invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep’s utopian influence—until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seeptech to make this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving Trina devastated. Heartbroken and deep into an alcoholic binge, Trina follows a lost boy she encounters, embarking on an unexpected quest. In her attempt to save him from The Seep, she will confront not only one of its most avid devotees, but the terrifying void that Deeba has left behind. A strange new elegy of love and loss, The Seep explores grief, alienation, and the ache of moving on.

Seventh Shrine

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Publisher : Marvel
ISBN 13 : 9780785126607
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Seventh Shrine written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grisly murder has taken place in the ruins of an ancient city on the peaceful world of Majipoor and the Pontifex Valentine has arrived to investigate the crime. But as Valentine and his companions delve deeper into the mystery, they discover that these ruins contain secrets much deeper than anyone ever knew. And that the indigenous Metamorphs are holding back information related to their own dark history. Can Valentine and his friends locate the murderer or did the violent act have something to do with a ritual sacrifice related to the fabled Seventh Shrine?

Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739144871
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature by : Tony Burns

Download or read book Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature written by Tony Burns and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction. Published in 1974, it marked a revival of utopianism after decades of dystopian writing. According to this widely accepted view The Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia, which Tom Moylan calls a 'critical utopia.' The present work challenges this reading of The Dispossessed and its place in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction. It explores the difference between traditional literary utopia and novels and suggests that The Dispossessed is not a literary utopia but a novel about utopianism in politics. Le Guin's concerns have more to do with those of the novelists of the 19th century writing in the tradition of European Realism than they do with the science fiction or utopian literature. It also claims that her theory of the novel has an affinity with the ancient Greek tragedy. This implies that there is a conservatism in Le Guin's work as a creative writer, or as a novelist, which fits uneasily with her personal commitment to anarchism.

Echoes of the Great Song

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552142557
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Echoes of the Great Song by : David Gemmell

Download or read book Echoes of the Great Song written by David Gemmell and published by Random House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Bear will descend from the skies, and with his paw, lash at the ocean. He will devour all the works of Man. Then he will sleep for ten thousand years, and the breath of his sleep will be death.The prophecy had come true. The world spun. Tidal

Expressionist Utopias

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230033
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Expressionist Utopias by : Timothy O. Benson

Download or read book Expressionist Utopias written by Timothy O. Benson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conveys the dreams and disappointments of German artists, architects, and intellectuals from World War I through the social and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic.

The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178831705X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia by : Mikhail Suslov

Download or read book The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia written by Mikhail Suslov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 700 'utopian' novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias – meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history – do not set out merely to titillate; instead they express very real Russian anxieties: be they territorial right-sizing, loss of imperial status or turning into a 'colony' of the West. Contributors to this innovative collection use these narratives to re-examine post-Soviet Russian political culture and identity. Interrogating the intersections of politics, ideologies and fantasies, chapters draw together the highbrow literary mainstream (authors such as Vladimir Sorokin), mass literature for entertainment and individuals who bridge the gap between fiction writers and intellectuals or ideologists (Aleksandr Prokhanov, for example, the editor-in-chief of Russia's far-right newspaper Zavtra). In the process The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia sheds crucial light onto a variety of debates – including the rise of nationalism, right-wing populism, imperial revanchism, the complicated presence of religion in the public sphere, the function of language – and is important reading for anyone interested in the heightened importance of ideas, myths, alternative histories and conspiracy theories in Russia today.

No Place Else

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis No Place Else by : Eric S. Rabkin

Download or read book No Place Else written by Eric S. Rabkin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers have created fictions of social per­fection at least since Plato’s Republic. Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intel­lectual history a name when he called his contribution to it Utopia, Greek for no place. With each subsequent author cog­nizant of his predecessors and subject to altered real-world conditions which sug­gest ever-new causes for hope and alarm, “no place” changed. The fourteen essays presented in this book critically assess man’s fascination with and seeking for “no place.” “In discussing these central fictions, the contributors see ‘no place’ from di­verse perspectives: the sociological, the psychological, the political, the aesthetic. In revealing the roots of these works, the contributors cast back along the whole length of utopian thought. Each essay stands alone; together, the essays make clear what ‘no place’ means today. While it may be true that ‘no place’ has always seemed elsewhere or elsewhen, in fact all utopian fiction whirls contemporary ac­tors through a costume dance no place else but here.”—from the Preface The contributors are Eric S. Rabkin, B. G. Knepper, Thomas J. Remington, Gorman Beauchamp, William Matter, Ken Davis, Kenneth M. Roemer, Wil­liam Steinhoff, Howard Segal, Jack Zipes, Kathleen Woodward, Merritt Abrash, and James W. Bittner.

Learning the World

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466842822
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Learning the World by : Ken MacLeod

Download or read book Learning the World written by Ken MacLeod and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient starship from Earth reaches its destination after four hundred years of travel and makes a life-changing discovery in this compelling space opera. “MacLeod . . . delivers perhaps the finest novel of first contact since Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky. . . . This is contemporary SF at its best.”—Publishers Weekly Humanity has spread to every star within five hundred light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life. The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four-hundred-year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed-pod ready to burst. Then they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system’s Earth-like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark. On Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system’s outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It’s only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying-machine to calculate the comet's trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet's path. They are not the only ones for whom the world has changed . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. “Highly entertaining.” —Locus “MacLeod continues to dazzle readers with vividly rendered landscapes of technological splendor and fascinating yet plausible visions of humanity’s future.” —Booklist

Unveiling a Parallel

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Unveiling a Parallel by : Alice Ilgenfritz Jones

Download or read book Unveiling a Parallel written by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling a Parallel is a sci-fi romance by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones. A nameless male character rides an "aeroplane" to Mars where he interacts with two different "Marsian" societies, Paleveria and Caskia.

Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498598684
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium by : Mark Doyle

Download or read book Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium written by Mark Doyle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society. Tolkien’s works do this by creating utopian and dystopian longing while also rejecting the stilted conventions of most literary utopias and dystopias. Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium traces these utopian and dystopian motifs through a variety of Tolkien’s works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Book of Lost Tales, Leaf by Niggle,and some of his early poetry. The book analyzes Tolkien’s ideal and evil societies from a variety of angles: political and literary theory, the sources of Tolkien’s narratives, the influence of environmentalism and Catholic social doctrine, Tolkien’s theories about and use of myth, and finally the relationship between Tolkien’s politics and his theories of leadership. The book’s epilogue looks at Tolkien’s works compared to popular culture adaptations of his legendarium.

The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828428
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by : Gregory Claeys

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature written by Gregory Claeys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.