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Utopias in literature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Utopieën in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Science fiction, American --- Utopias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Science fiction [American ] --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber --- Piercy, Marge --- Delany, Samuel Ray
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A cultural studies examination of the twentieth century genre of dystopian fiction in the political and scholarly context of the evolution of science fiction studies and utopian studies since the 1960s. Focuses especially on the "critical dystopias" of the 1980s and 1990s and examines their interrogation of the sociopolitical and cultural changes wrought by capitalist restructuring and neo-conservative and neo-liberal governments in the United States and Europe. . In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan delivers a critical investigation of the history, aesthetics, and politics of dystopia. To situate this work, he recaps the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grew out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960s and 1970s (the context that also produced the project of cultural studies). He then presents a new and comprehensive account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the science fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the conservative restoration and corporate restructuring of the 1980s and 1990s, and he closely examines the critical dystopias of Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia Butler, and Marge Piercy. Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors. In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast , Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower , and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production.
Dystopias in literature. --- Science fiction --- Utopias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Dystopias in literature --- Utopias in literature --- History and criticism --- Utopian literature --- 82-313.2 --- 82-312.9 --- 82-312.9 Fantastische literatuur --- Fantastische literatuur --- 82-313.2 Utopische roman --- Utopische roman --- Science fiction - History and criticism --- Science-fiction --- Utopies --- Dystopies --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature
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"Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E.M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors. In Scraps of the Untainted Sky, Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower, and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production."--Provided by publisher.
Science fiction --- Dystopias in literature. --- Utopias in literature. --- History and criticism.
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With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons stubbornly anticipate a different and more just world. The top-notch team of contributors explores this development in a variety of ways: by looking at questions of form, politics, the politics of form, and the form of politics. In a broader context, the essays connect their textual and theoretical analyses with historical developments such as September 11th, the rise and downturn of the global economy, and the growth of anti-capitalist movements.
English literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Literary semiotics --- Film --- Science fiction, American --- Science fiction, English --- Science fiction films --- Utopias in literature. --- Science-fiction américaine --- Science-fiction anglaise --- Films de science-fiction --- Utopies dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 791.43 --- 82-311.9 --- 82-313.2 --- 820-31 --- Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- Science fiction --- Utopische roman --- Engelse literatuur: novel; roman --- Utopias --- 820-31 Engelse literatuur: novel; roman --- 82-313.2 Utopische roman --- 82-311.9 Science fiction --- 791.43 Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- Science-fiction américaine --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Utopias in literature --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- History and criticism
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Utopias --- Political science --- Social structure
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Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970's. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahine Classics edition includes the original text along with a new essay by Moylan (on Aldous Huxley's Island) and a...
Science fiction, American --- Utopias in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Russ, Joanna, --- Le Guin, Ursula K., --- Piercy, Marge, --- Delany, Samuel R., --- USA.
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Bloch, Ernst --- Criticism and interpretation --- Historiography --- France
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Utopias --- Utopias in literature --- Philosophy --- Utopias - Congresses --- Utopias in literature - Congresses --- Utopias - Philosophy - Congresses
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