Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland ; ; Oxford, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina	813/.54
Soggetto topico	Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature
ISBN	0-7391-0862-X 0-7391-5820-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Note; Introduction Laurence Davis; Part I. Open-Ended Utopian Politics; 1 The Dynamic and Revolutionary Utopia of Ursula K. Le Guin Laurence Davis; 2 Worlds Apart: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Possibility of Method Simon Stow; Part II. Post-Consumerist Politics; 3 The Dispossessed as Ecological Political Theory Peter G. Stillman; 4 Ursula K. Le Guin, Herbert Marcuse, and the Fate of Utopia in the Postmodern Andrew Reynolds 5 The Alien Comes Home: Getting Past the Twin Planets of Possession and Austerity in Le Guin's The Dispossessed Douglas SpencerPart III. Anarchist Politics; 6 Individual and Community in Le Guin's The Dispossessed Dan Sabia; 7 The Need for Walls: Privacy, Community, and Freedom in The Dispossessed Mark Tunick; 8 Breaching Invisible Walls: Individual Anarchy inThe Dispossessed Winter Elliott; Part IV. Temporal Politics; 9 Time and the Measure of the Political Animal Ellen M Rigsby; 10 Fulfillment as a Function of Time, or the Ambiguous Process of Utopia Jennifer Rodgers 11 Science and Politics in The Dispossessed: Le Guin and the ""Science Wars"" Tony BurnsPart V. Revolutionary Politics; 12 The Gap in the Wall: Partnership, Physics, and Politics in The Dispossessed Everett L. Hamner; 13 From Ambiguity to Self-Reflexivity: Revolutionizing Fantasy Space Bulent Somay; 14 Future Conditional or Future Perfect? The Dispossessed and Permanent Revolution Chris Ferns; Part VI. Open-Ended Utopian Politics; 15 Ambiguous Choices: Skepticism as a Grounding for Utopia Claire P Curtis 16 Empty Hands: Communication, Pluralism, and Community in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed Avery PlawA Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti Ursula K. Le Guin; Further Reading; Index; About the Contributors
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Autore	Burwell Jennifer
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina	813/.5409372
Collana	American culture
Soggetto topico	American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism Utopias in literature Feminism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Feminist fiction, American - History and criticism Social problems in literature Logic in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8166-8663-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Locational Hazards: The Utopian Impulse and the Logic of Social Transformation; 2. Turning Inward: Strategies of Containment and Subjective/Collective Boundaries in Traditional Utopian Literature; 3. Speaking Parts: Internal Dialogic and Models of Agency in the Work of Joanna Russ and Octavia Butler; 4. Utopia and Technopolitics in Woman on the Edge of Time; 5. Acting Out ""Lesbian"": Monique Wittig and Immanent Critique; Conclusion. Moveable Locales: Narrating Unsutured Utopia; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Altri titoli varianti	Feminism, utopian logic, and social transformation
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Autore	Lochrie Karma
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (281 p.)
Disciplina	809/.93372
Collana	Middle Ages Series
Soggetto topico	Utopias in literature Utopias - History Utopias - History - To 1500 Literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8122-9285-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. No Past -- Chapter 1. Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium -- Chapter 2. Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now -- Chapter 3. Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism -- Chapter 4. "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball -- Chapter 5. Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Porto, Portugal, : Routledge, c2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (285 p.)
Altri autori (Persone)	ReisJosé Eduardo da SilvaBastos
Collana	Perspective series
Soggetto topico	Utopias Utopias in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	989-8265-05-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Introduction; PART I - Lands Beyond the Sea / The Other Beyond the Sea: Ancient to Early Modern Utopianism; The Fruit of the Planted Oar: Utopia in the Odyssey; A Cannibal Utopia: On Montaigne's Essays; The Sea,"that Great Utopian Substance": For an Ideal-Maritime History in Portuguese Literature; Shipwreck and Utopia in Colonial Spanish America; PART II - Utopian Inclusions and Exclusions: The Ages of (Un)Reason; Spanish Literary Utopias: Omnibona and The Desired Government; Aux Marches du Palais: L'emblème d'une Académie portugaise du XVIIe siècle; Utopianism in The Scarlet Letter Madness and Utopia in John Ruskin's Thought Do the Right Thing? Knowledge and Agency in Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas"; PART III - Technological Utopianisms: The Present and the Future; The Ubermensch in the Laboratory: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Communing with Relationships: A Look at the Influence of Nineteenth Century Communes on Utopian Space Travel and Stations; PART IV - Contemporary Spaces: Performing / Discussing Utopia; "We Have Suddenly Become Severe": Ernst Bloch as a Critic of Modern Architecture Utopian Modernism in the Land of the Future: Brasília, the "Capital of Hope"Redesigning Utopia for the Twenty-First Century? Reflections on Current Projects of Urban Regeneration in the United Kingdom; Constructing, Performimg and Unsettling Utopia: Geographies of Built Space at the Hundertwasser-Haus, Vienna; The Imaginary Space of Wishful Other: Thomas Hirschhorn's Cardboard Utopias; Spatialising Resistance - Resisting Spaces: On Utopias and Heterotopias; Antinomy Perfected: Everyday Life Utopia in Situationist Politics of Space; Utopie / Terre / Sôma
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