| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction. Dystopia and histories / Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan -- Utopia in dark times : optimism/ pessimism and utopia/dystopia / Ruth Levitas and Lucy Sargisson -- Genre blending and the critical dystopia / Jane Donawerth -- The writing of utopia and the feminist critical dystopia : Suzy McKee Charnas's holdfast series / Ildney Cavalcanti -- Cyberpunk and dystopia : Pat Cadigan's networks / David Seed -- Posthuman bodies and agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Naomi Jacobs -- "A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past" : memory and historical reconciliation in Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling / Raffaella Baccolini -- "The moment is here ... and it's important" : state, agency, and dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling / Tom Moylan -- Unmasking the real? Critique and utopia in recent SF Films / Peter Fitting -- Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism and dystopia in Fight club and Ghost dog / Phillip E. Wegner -- Theses on dystopia 2001 / Darko Suvin -- Concrete dystopia : slavery and its others / Maria Varsam -- The problem of the "flawed utopia" : a note on the costs of eutopia / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Conclusion. Critical dystopia and possibilities / Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan |
| Summary |
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Science fiction films -- History and criticism
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias -- English-speaking countries
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utopian literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Science fiction, American
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Science fiction, English
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Science fiction films
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Utopias
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Utopias in literature
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Science-Fiction
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Anti-Utopie
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Science-Fiction-Film
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English-speaking countries
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USA
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baccolini, Raffaella
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Moylan, Tom, 1943-
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| ISBN |
9781317793540 |
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1317793544 |
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9781315810775 |
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1315810778 |
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