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The end of Utopia : a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
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ISBN: 0838750583 Year: 1984 Publisher: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press,

Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch
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ISBN: 0813216052 9780813216058 9780813215730 0813215730 0813214777 9780813214771 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press

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Strange meetings : Anglo-German literary encounters from 1910 to 1960
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ISBN: 0813218349 9780813218342 9780813215334 0813215331 Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press,

Envisioning Africa
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ISBN: 0813149754 9780813149752 0813121280 9780813121284 1322594384 081319198X Year: 2000 Publisher: Lexington University Press of Kentucky

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For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible. He begins by contrasting the meanings of race, racism, and imperialism in Conrad's day to those of our own time. Firchow then argues that Heart of D


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Modern utopian fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris Murdoch
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington : Catholic University of America Press,

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Criticism on utopian subjects has generally neglected the literary or fictional dimension of utopia. The reason for such neglect may be that earlier utopian fictions tended to be written by what one would nowadays call social scientists, e.g., Plato or Sir Thomas More. That is also why earlier discussions of utopian fiction were usually written by critics trained in the social sciences rather than by critics trained in literature. To an appreciable degree this still tends to be the case today. This book aims to put the fiction back into utopian fictions. While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary - possibly as a reaction not only against the "social scientification" of modern utopias but also in reaction against the modern attempt to institute "utopia" in reality, notably in the former Soviet Union but also in consumerist, late-twentieth-century America. After an introductory discussion of how we understand - and how we should understand - modern utopian fictions, the book provides several examples of how those understandings affect our appreciation of utopian fiction. There are chapters on H.G. Wells's Time Machine; Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; William Golding's Lord of the Flies; and Iris Murdoch's The Bell.

The perennial satirist : essays in honour of Bernfried Nugel presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday 13 september 2005
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ISBN: 9783825883393 3825883396 Year: 2005 Publisher: Münster: Lit,

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Aldoux Huxley : modern satirical novelist of ideas
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ISBN: 9783825896683 3825896684 Year: 2006 Publisher: Münster: Lit,

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