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Author : Caroline Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108498708
Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.
Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828420
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.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027235551
A Modern Utopia is presented as a tale told by a sketchily described character known only as the Owner of the Voice. This character "is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages," Wells warns. He is accompanied by another character known as "the botanist." Interspersed in the narrative are discursive remarks on various matters, creating what Wells called in his preface "a sort of shot-silk texture between philosophical discussion on the one hand and imaginative narrative on the other." Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability." Herbert George Wells (1866–1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Author : Sara Upstone,Peter Ely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350244047
Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on the most challenging issues for community in the past five years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis, with a broader understanding of themes of local and national belonging, this book offers detailed discussions of writers including Ali Smith, Niall Griffiths, John McGregor, Max Porter, Amanda Craig, Bernadine Evaristo, Jonathan Coe, Bernie McGill, Jan Carson, Guy Gunaratne, Anthony Cartright, Barney Farmer, Maggie Gee and Sarah Hall. Demonstrating some of the resources that literature can offer for a renewed understanding of community, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how British Literature contributes to our understanding of society in both the past and present, and how such understanding can potentially help us to shape the future.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547801467
This carefully crafted ebook: "A Modern Utopia (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Modern Utopia is presented as a tale told by a sketchily described character known only as the Owner of the Voice. This character "is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages," Wells warns. He is accompanied by another character known as "the botanist." Interspersed in the narrative are discursive remarks on various matters, creating what Wells called in his preface "a sort of shot-silk texture between philosophical discussion on the one hand and imaginative narrative on the other." Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability." Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Author : Antony Rowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841979
Introduction -- Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness -- Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry -- Committed and Autonomous Art -- Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment -- The Double Consciousness of Modernism -- Conclusion.
Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317914815
This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.
Author : Eileen Pollard,Berthold Schoene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107121423
This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends from 1980-2000.
Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813214771
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.
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Utopias
ISBN : OCLC:1026211576
Author : Justyna Galant,Marta Komsta
Publisher : Mediated Fictions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Utopias in literature
ISBN : 3631786662
The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such as philosophy, translation, music, social and political issues, and global utopian fiction.
Author : Gero Bauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765104217
Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging. Taking its cue from an understanding of hope as connoting an organizing temporality, one which is often presumed to be projecting into a future, Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction challenges this understanding, arguing that hope emerges in practices of relationality in the present, disentangling hope from a necessary correlation with futurity. Through close readings of contemporary works, including The Road, The Walking Dead, Cloud Atlas, Sense8, The People in the Trees and A Little Life, Gero Bauer investigates how these texts explore structures of kinship as creative and affective practices of belonging and care that claim spaces beyond the heterosexual, reproductive nuclear family. In this context, fictional figurations of the child – often considered the bearer of the future – are of particular interest. Through these interventions into definitions of and reflections on fictional manifestations of hope and kinship, Bauer's analyses intersect with queer theory, new materialism and postcritical approaches to literature and cultural studies, moving towards counterintuitively hopeful readings of the present moment.
Author : Helen E. Mundler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781640141315
Breaks new ground by analyzing four recent rewritings of the Noah myth not just as ideological statements but as literary artifacts and by contextualizing them within the wider crises of the Anthropocene.
Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009180061
Provides an overview of ways that utopian thinking has shaped American culture, focusing on the need to remake imperial USA.
