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1 online resource (vii, 278 pages) |
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Atavism and Utopia / Eric S. Rabkin -- The coming race: Hell? or paradise foretasted? / B.G. Knepper -- "The mirror up to nature": reflections of Victorianism in Samuel Butler's Erewhon / Thomas J. Remington -- Zamiatin's We / Gorman Beauchamp -- Olaf Stapledon's Last and first men / Eugene Goodheart -- On Brave new world / William Matter -- The shape of things to come: H.G. Wells and the rhetoric od Proteus / Ken Davis -- Mixing behaviorism and Utopia: the transformations of Walden two / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Utopia reconsidered: comments on 1984 / William Steinhoff -- Kurt Vonnegut's Player piano: an ambiguous technological dystopia / Howard P. Segal -- Mass degradation of humanity and massive contradictions in Bradbury's vision of America in Fahrenheit 451 / Jack Zipes -- On aggression: William Golding's Lord of the flies / Kathleen Woodward -- Robert Silverberg's The world inside / Merritt Abrash -- Chronosophy, aesthetics, and ethics in Le Guin's The dispossessed: an ambiguous Utopia / James W. Bittner |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
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Literature and science -- English-speaking countries
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Utopias in literature.
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Dystopias in literature.
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utopian literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dystopias in literature
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Literature and science
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Place (Philosophy) in literature
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Science fiction, American
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Science fiction, English
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Utopias in literature
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Utopie
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Literatur
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Anti-Utopie
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Fictie.
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Science fiction.
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Utopieën.
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Engels.
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English-speaking countries
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rabkin, Eric S.
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Greenberg, Martin Harry.
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Olander, Joseph D.
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| ISBN |
0585186413 |
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9780585186412 |
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