The book employs the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia in the analysis of a variety of phenomena such as literature, cinema, rock music, literary/cultural theories, as well as the practice of literature (socialist realism) and ...
Author: Artur Blaim
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 3631675658
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Page: 285
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The book employs the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia in the analysis of a variety of phenomena such as literature, cinema, rock music, literary/cultural theories, as well as the practice of literature (socialist realism) and socio-political life.
The quest for utopia—that ideal state where all is ordered in the best interest of
all the people—is as old as civilization. Most utopias have been imaginary
societies existing only in books, but many have been attempted as living
experiments.
Author: Christine Adams
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271016375
Category: History
Page: 214
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This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three sections, the chapters map out current research paths in social, cultural, and political history. The authors engage the most heated subjects of debate in the field today, including the changing nature of political life in the age of Enlightenment, the role of public opinion in undermining absolutism, and the impact of gender on social relationships and political language in the late eighteenth century. They demonstrate a marked interest in the lives of ordinary and humble French people, finding that exclusion from the main corridors of power fostered cunning and resourcefulness, not political indifference or ignorance. The articles encompass the Old Regime and the revolutionary era without falling into the teleological trap of using the former as the backdrop for the events of 1789. On the contrary, many of the authors consciously avoid this bias by investigating the Old Regime in its own right or by consciously linking the pre- and postrevolutionary eras. This decision alone marks an important turning of the tide. By establishing a dialogue between the Old Regime and the revolution, this volume implicitly pays homage to those historians who insist on the structural continuities that underlay the rupture of 1789. Contributors are Cissie Fairchilds, Christine Adams, Orest Ranum, Lisa Jane Graham, Harvey Chisick, John Garrigus, Lenard Berlanstein, and Jack Censer.
While Shelley too readily transcends the experience towards utopian visions ,
Coleridge , as we saw in Dejection , can overcome it in an authentic way in which
writing becomes the gesture towards the other , a prayer for the preservation and
...
... accompany the Exposition Universelle in 1867 ) , despite the fact that Hugo
necessarily places Paris at the centre of his Utopian vision : ' Cette nation aura
pour capitale Paris , et ne s ' appellera point la France ; elle s ' appellera l '
Europe .
Author: Nigel Harkness
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 3039101404
Category: History
Page: 330
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Selected from papers given at the first annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes, the nineteen essays in this volume contribute diversely towards a revision and a reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century France. Many adopt interdisciplinary methodologies attentive to the interplay between literature, history, art, popular and high culture, politics and science. The wide-ranging discussion of issues such as identity, alterity, commemoration, cultural history, tensions between centre and margins, mimesis and representation, suggest that no simplistic snapshot of this century is possible. Opening with a section on the modernity of the nineteenth century, the volume continues with sections on cultural transfer, war, readings and re-readings, and concludes with two essays on questions of identity. The critical reappraisals put forward here offer us various insights into directions in which nineteenth-century French studies are heading at the turn of another new century.
... revisions Visions and revisions c . 400 BC In Aristophanes ' The Birds ,
Nephelokokkugia ( Cloud - cuckooland ) is probably the first satirical utopia c .
380 BC Plato ' s Republic - probably the first serious utopia 1516 Thomas More
publishes ...
He critically examines the works of some of the most prominent writers to have written in the genre-including Evgeny Zamiatin, Karel Capek, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Stanislaw Lem, along with English-language authors from H.G. ...
Author: Robert M. Philmus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853238995
Category: Fiction
Page: 411
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Renowned science fiction scholar Robert M. Philmus offers in Visions and Revisions a fresh and provocative literary analysis of science fiction writing. He critically examines the works of some of the most prominent writers to have written in the genre-including Evgeny Zamiatin, Karel Capek, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Stanislaw Lem, along with English-language authors from H.G. Wells to Ursula Le Guin-and reveals how their works illustrate the fundamental elements of science fiction writing. The former editor of Science Fiction Studies, Philmus casts his expert eye on a diverse range of short stories and novels by the premier arbiters of the craft, with close readings that draw upon the theories of New Criticism as well as post-Modern. Featuring essays such as "Stanislaw Lem's Futurological Congress as a Metageneric Text," "Kurt Vonnegut: Historiographer of the Absurd: The Sirens of Titan," "Ursula K. Le Guin and Time's Dispossession," and "Time Out of Joint: The World(s) of Philip K. Dic
The book is a study of the eighteenth-century English robinsonade focusing on the pre-history of the genre, the multi-level semantics of «Robinson Crusoe», its functioning as a genre model, and the subsequent process of its simplification ...
Author: Artur Blaim
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 3631679424
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Page: 212
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The book is a study of the eighteenth-century English robinsonade focusing on the pre-history of the genre, the multi-level semantics of Robinson Crusoe, its functioning as a genre model, and the subsequent process of its simplification by the gradual elimination of religious meanings and foregrounding the exciting adventures.
... during an unpleasant but limited portion of one's early life and that everything
which the teacher declares to be a matter of fact may be subject to revision or
even overthrow; and third, by connecting education to the idea of utopia—that is,
to a ...
Author: Justin E.A. Busch
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786455492
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 212
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This book examines and develops the evolutionary utopian ideas of H.G. Wells. It begins with a detailed consideration of the types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies, as well as the social, aesthetic and intellectual aspects of utopian life in Wells’s books. It then discusses the role of the state and how Wells’s utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader’s understanding of his or her own position relative to current and future societies.
I finished on time (our daughter was born the day I completed final revisions), I
got a job, and the 1970s were an exciting time to be in the field. I recall one
Modern Language Association panel that was so packed that we worried about
the fire ...
Author: Tom Moylan
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 303910912X
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 345
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This collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work and research perspectives.
Author: International H. G. Wells SymposiumPublish On: 1990
Some utopias , such as Bellamy's Looking Backward and B. F. Skinner's Walden
Two , are closer to formal political ... In his own case too Wells was aware of the
need to present his utopian vision in as compelling a form as possible .
Author: International H. G. Wells Symposium
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 0945636059
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 263
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Dissatisfied with her relationship with her boyfriend, Constance Wechselburger, a graduate film student, embarks on a disheartening, confusing quest in search of her vision of the ideal intellectual mate.
WOM Nevertheless , Eliot sees Victorian domestic ideology requiring
reconstruction and revision . Dickens and Eliot at once endorse and subvert
Victorian domestic utopian vision in their novels . Even though they frequently set
up domestic ...
... 56 Two Halves Equal More Than One Whole Marsha J. Perlman I ( 1 ) , 58 Visions and Revisions : Women's Studies ... 40 Fantasy and Utopian Visions of
the Future “ Dear FRONTIERS ” : Letters From Women Fantasy and Science
Fiction ...
The utopian vision of Moholy - Nagy . ( Studies in photography ; no . 5 ) Revision
of thesis ( Ph . D . ) – Princeton University , 1980 . Bibliography : p . Includes
index . 1 . Moholy - Nagy , László , 1895 - 1946 . 2 . Aesthetics - Philosophy . I .
Title .
Visions and Revisions Arthur C. Danto, Mark Tansey Christopher Sweet ... Art
Advisory Service Exhibition , exhibited at American Express , New York : “ Utopian Visions ” Neuberger Museum , State University of New York , Purchase :
“ The ...
Mercier quickly responded to ballooning experiments by including among revisions for the 1786 edition speculations about ... The machines most
conspicuous in his initial utopian vision are the microsope , the telescope , and
the printing ...
The fact that Museveni endorses a form of democracy he quaintly terms " no -
party democracy " is irrelevant in this shared utopian vision for our Africa . The
hypocrisy and sheer brutality of this vision should be astonishing , but they are
not .
The tone of this impressive piece , as of the collection as a whole , ” wrote
Eagleton , “ is sombre , elegiac , shorn of the brave utopian vision of the earlier ' A
Liberty Tree . ” Of the collection as a whole , Fitzgerald wrote : “ One receives the
...
Author: Gale Group
Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN: 0787646075
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 480
View: 950
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