The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&apos;s Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) and Equality (1897), Bogdanov&apos;s Red Star: A Utopia (1908) and Engineer Menni: A Novel of Fantasy (1913), Yefremov&apos;s Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale (1957) and The Hour of the Bull (1970), Piercy&apos;s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and He, She and It (1991), and Butler&apos;s Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998).

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&apos;s Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) and Equality (1897), Bogdanov&apos;s Red Star: A Utopia (1908) and Engineer Menni: A Novel of Fantasy (1913), Yefremov&apos;s Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale (1957) and The Hour of the Bull (1970), Piercy&apos;s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and He, She and It (1991), and Butler&apos;s Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998).

Druh

B - Odborná kniha

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-1-80374-055-3

Počet stran knihy

312

Název nakladatele

Peter Lang

Místo vydání

Oxford

Kód UT WoS knihy

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