Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Author: Joy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521016575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521016575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Table of contents
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Author: Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521786522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521786522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Table of contents
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic
Author: Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839637
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839637
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
Author: Shamoon Zamir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.
Voyage to Kazohinia
Author: Sándor Szathmári
Publisher: New and Young Europe Books
ISBN: 9780982578124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A page-turning classic--comic, eerily timely--novel that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels
Publisher: New and Young Europe Books
ISBN: 9780982578124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A page-turning classic--comic, eerily timely--novel that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels