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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BRIEF INTRODUCTION; CONTRIBUTORS; PART I; UTOPIA, RELIGION AND THE GOD-BUILDERS; UTOPIA TODAY; LOGOS AND PATHOS IN THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA; UTOPIA AS A METHOD OF EVALUATION OF THE REAL; UTOPIAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY; HEGEL AND MARX; THE UTOPIAN IDEAS OF FRANCIS BACON'S NEW ATLANTIS; THE PRINCIPLE OF PLENITUDE, UTOPIA AND HETEROTOPIA; DEGENERATION; PART II; DYSTOPIAN BORGES; WILLIAM GOLDING AND THE MAGICAL POWER OF WORDS; ASPIRATIONS OF IDEALISM, POLEMICS OF MORALITY IN THE NEW ATLANTIS AND HERLAND; THE QUOTIDIAN "STORY" BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA |
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SUBVERTING THE SELF ON A DYSTOPIAN BACKGROUND IN CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE'S OUTDYSTOPIA WITHIN; THE REPEATED FALL AND THE UTOPIA OF INNOCENCE; FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD; UTOPIA OF ENGLISH BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN A ROMANIAN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LINGUISTIC DYSTOPIAS IN THE NORTH-WEST OF ROMANIA; PORTRAYAL OF A DYSTOPIA IN PAUL GOMA'S JURNAL PE SARITE; IS NEVERLAND A CHILDREN'S UTOPIA?; KAZUO ISHIGURO'S NEVER LET ME GO |
| Summary |
This volume is dedicated to Francis Bacon, to William Golding and to the tradition of writing utopias and dystopias. Although some of the articles contained herein were presented at the conference from which this book originated, there are also other contributions which join these to complete a 21st century vision on utopia, from the point of view of specialists in philology, philosophy, anthropology, etc. The novelty of such an undertaking comes from the fact that the editors enabled researc .. |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Utopias in literature.
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utopian literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literary essays.
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History of Western philosophy.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Utopias in literature
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barbul, Minodora
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Demarcsek, Ramona
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| ISBN |
9781443839440 |
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1443839442 |
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