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This book examines dystopian fiction's recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. It links the dystopian tradition with the literary history of the novel, spatio-philosophical concepts against the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. Five dystopian novels are discussed in great detail: China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry, John Berger's Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson. The book includes chapters on the literary history of the dystopian tradition, the referential interplay of maps and literature, urban spaces in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a tool for charting dystopian fiction. The result is a detailed overview of how dystopian fiction constantly adapts to - and reflects on - the actual world.

Anti-Utopie --- Englisch --- Stadt --- Geschichte 1992-2011 --- Fantasy fiction, English --- English fiction --- Dystopias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- City and town life in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- English literature --- Science fiction. --- Dystopias. --- Anti-utopias --- Utopias --- Science --- Science stories --- Fiction --- Future, The, in literature --- Dystopia. --- Dystopias in literature --- History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- Science Fiction. --- spatial turn. --- urban.

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L’utopie naît en 1516, quand Thomas More moule dans une forme nouvelle des traditions aussi diverses que la doctrine politique de Platon, la satire de Lucien, le monde à l’envers, les mythes de l’âge d’or et du paradis terrestre, l’idéal monastique et les récits du Nouveau Monde. Si, au cœur du genre, fondamentalement hybride dès ses origines, se trouve toujours l’image concrète et détaillée d’une société radicalement différente et s’affirmant meilleure que toutes les autres, le sens du projet utopique n’est pourtant jamais donné, mais ardemment débattu, critiqué, brouillé ou renversé. C’est ainsi que l’utopie prend tour à tour l’allure d’un dialogue, d’une satire, d’une allégorie, d’un récit de voyage, d’un roman d’aventure ou d’une science-fiction et change, au cours de son histoire, de forme et de sens comme un caméléon. Le parcours que proposent les contributions du volume va de Sénèque aux derniers avatars de l’utopie contre-utopique du corps technologiquement perfectionné, en passant par le royaume des Amazones, la ville idéale de la Renaissance, le meilleur des mondes possibles de Voltaire, les dystopies du xxe siècle et l’utopisme de la science-fiction. À l’idée reçue d’un passage linéaire de l’utopie traditionnelle à l’anti-utopie moderne s’opposent les méandres d’un discours qui situe l’utopie, depuis toujours, dans un tiers espace entre l’eutopie et la dystopie. Hommage à Claude-Gilbert Dubois et à son lointain essai sur les Problèmes de l’utopie, ce volume rappelle que le genre utopique « obéit à une esthétique de la distanciation beaucoup plus qu’à une esthétique de l’illusion ».

Literature (General) --- parodie --- humanité --- urbanisme --- utopie --- altérité --- modèle --- science-fiction --- monstre --- dystopie --- anti-utopie --- contre-modèle --- ambivalence --- Utopias in literature --- Imaginary places in literature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Lieux imaginaires dans la littérature --- Dubois, Claude-Gilbert --- Utopies littéraires. --- Utopies -- Dans la litterature --- Lieux imaginaires --- Dans la litterature --- Melanges et hommages

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This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike. .

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- History and criticism --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Dystopias in literature. --- Science fiction, English. --- Literature, Modern. --- Huxley, Aldous, --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- English science fiction --- English fiction --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Huxley, Aldous --- Brave new world (Huxley, Aldous) --- Anti-Utopie --- Ludwig, Volker --- 1932 --- Krasni novi svet (Huxley, Aldous)