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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818493803321

Autore

Gallardo Pere

Titolo

Yesterday's tomorrow : on Utopia and Dystopia / / edited by Pere Gallardo and Elizabeth Russell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

2014

ISBN

1-4438-5877-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Disciplina

335.02

Soggetti

Utopias - History

Dystopias - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; PART II; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; CHAPTER IX; CHAPTER X; CHAPTER XI; PART III; CHAPTER XII; CHAPTER XIII; CHAPTER XIV; CHAPTER XV; CHAPTER XVI; CHAPTER XVII; CHAPTER XVIII; PART IV; CHAPTER XIX; CHAPTER XX; CHAPTER XXI; CHAPTER XXII; CHAPTER XXIII; CHAPTER XXIV; PART V; CHAPTER XXV; CHAPTER XXVI; CHAPTER XXVII; CHAPTER XXVIII; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

2012 was a year of financial crises and ecological disasters, of endings and forebodings. The world did not end on December 21st as the Mayan calendar predicted, but became the stage for new beginnings, utopian communities, protest groups and solidarity movements. The essays in this book form an intertextual space for negotiating meaningful facts and fictions with an aim to understanding the present. Discussions focus on utopia and dystopia from literature and film, not only within the fram...