Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society

Slusser, George; Paul K. Alkon and Roger Gaillard

ISBN 10: 0404642551 / ISBN 13: 9780404642556

Editore: AMS Press, New York, 1999

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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 Città 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 Lénine / Joseph Altairac -- Amours en utopie: version russe / Leonid Heller -- Le Suisse est-il utopiste? / Jean-François 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 à l'Utopie / Bertand Méheust -- 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: érotisme et pouvoir dans quelques utopies féminines récentes / 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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• Titolo: Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society
• Editore: AMS Press, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0404642551
• ISBN 13: 9780404642556
• Rilegatura: Hardcover

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A collection of 26 essays presented at an international conference held at Yverdon-les-Bains in 1991 as part of a celebration of Switzerland's 700th anniversary. Contributors reassess the idea of utopia, its history, and especially its role in today's world, examining both traditional thought and new manifestations of the utopian impulse. They look at topics including political systems in established countries, utopian projects in emerging nations, and feminist takes on utopian literature. Seven essays are in French. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)