The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler
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angličtina
Original language name
The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler
Original language description
This academic monograph sets out to compare and discuss selected Russian and American nineteenth- and twentieth-century utopias and dystopias. Utopias - literary visions of better, more just and happier communities - have been misconceived as ((mere fantasies}} on the one hand and ((models to implement}} on the other. Building on the notion of ((critical utopia}} and elaborating on interpretations of literary works as contradictory and incomplete, the book analyses selected utopian and dystopian novels by five writers: Edward Bellamy, Alexander Bogdanov, Ivan Yefremov, Marge Piercy and Octavia E. Butler. It argues that departing from the conventions of realism, utopias advance credible visions of more perfect ways of living and being which are nevertheless destabilized through gothic and poetic generic elements. Unresolved issues are further explored in (utopian as well as dystopian) sequels and prequels. The novels analysed in detail include Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) and Equality (1897), Bogdanov's Red Star: A Utopia (1908) and Engineer Menni: A Novel of Fantasy (1913), Yefremov's Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale (1957) and The Hour of the Bull (1970), Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and He, She and It (1991), and Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998).
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Classification
Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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ISBN
978-1-80374-055-3
Number of pages
312
Publisher name
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Oxford
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