Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West / / Douwe Fokkema [[electronic resource]]
| Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West / / Douwe Fokkema [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Fokkema Douwe Wessel <1931-2011, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93372 |
| Soggetto topico |
Utopias in literature
Comparative literature - Western and Chinese Chinese fiction - History and criticism Utopias |
| Soggetto non controllato |
literature
utopian fiction Utopia |
| ISBN |
1-283-33447-X
9786613334473 90-485-1486-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Utopia of Thomas More -- 3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia -- 4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai --5. Enlightenment Utopias -- 6. Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China -- 7. Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias -- 8. Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or "The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo" -- 9. Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky's Dystopian Foresight -- 10. When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics -- 11. Bellamy's Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland --12. Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress --13. H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia --14. Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism -- 15. Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response -- 16. Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I -- 17. Concluding Observations -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Names. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996218051303316 |
Fokkema Douwe Wessel <1931-2011, >
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| Amsterdam University Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West / / Douwe Fokkema [[electronic resource]]
| Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West / / Douwe Fokkema [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Fokkema Douwe Wessel <1931-2011, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93372 |
| Soggetto topico |
Utopias in literature
Comparative literature - Western and Chinese Chinese fiction - History and criticism Utopias |
| Soggetto non controllato |
literature
utopian fiction Utopia |
| ISBN |
1-283-33447-X
9786613334473 90-485-1486-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Utopia of Thomas More -- 3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia -- 4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai --5. Enlightenment Utopias -- 6. Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China -- 7. Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias -- 8. Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or "The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo" -- 9. Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky's Dystopian Foresight -- 10. When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics -- 11. Bellamy's Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland --12. Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress --13. H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia --14. Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism -- 15. Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response -- 16. Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I -- 17. Concluding Observations -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Names. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139560803321 |
Fokkema Douwe Wessel <1931-2011, >
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| Amsterdam University Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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