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      Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia

      Phillip E. Wegner

      This book explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. It contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in science fiction -…

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      Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times

      Phillip E. Wegner

      An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of…

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      Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times

      Phillip E. Wegner

      An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of…

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      Terrestrial Ecotopias

      Heather Alberro

      This book offers a transdisciplinary critical and imaginative examinations of key contemporary manifestations of ecotopianism as 'fervent refusals' of the ecocidal colonial-capitalist status quo.

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      Economic Inequality

      Donald Morris

      This work explores what utopian writers have said about economic inequality. Its transdisciplinary focus is literary utopias-novels of social theory-by authors seeking solutions to the problems of economic inequality engendered…

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      The Shape of Utopia: Studies in a Literary Genre

      Phillip E. Wegner,Robert C. Elliott

      This is a new edition of Robert C. Elliott’s highly influential book, first published in 1970, offering scintillating readings of classic works by Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Aldous…

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      Postcategorical Utopia

      Pekka Kilpelainen

      This book examines the dialectic of ideology and utopia in three novels by James Baldwin.

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      Zone Theory

      Alexander Popov

      Zone Theory develops an approach to the study of utopia that expands its definition and its application in the field of science fiction studies

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      The Rebirth of Utopia in 21st-Century Cinema

      Monica Martin

      Thinking across the boundaries of utopian studies, film studies, and the sociology of globalisation, this book argues that 21st-century cinema illustrates the rebirth of utopia as an open method grounded…

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      The English Utopia

      A.L. Morton

      The English Utopia remains provocative and critically engaging more than seventy years after its original publication. This edition brings to light Morton's complex role as Left political activist, historian, scholarly…

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      The Polyphony of Utopia

      Pavla Vesela

      Building on the notion of 'critical utopia' and elaborating on interpretations of literary works as contradictory and incomplete, the book analyses selected utopian and dystopian novels by five writers: Edward…

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      Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative

      Phillip E. Wegner

      For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. Phillip E. Wegner builds on Jameson’s unique dialectical method to demonstrate…

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      American Nightmares: Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction

      Valentina Romanzi

      Investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction using a methodological framework based on sociology, and theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a…

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      Transgressive Utopianism: Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson

      .This volume honors Lucy Sargisson’s contribution to the field of utopian studies.

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      Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism: The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited and Other Essays

      Lyman Tower Sargent

      The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theory

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      Utopian Encounters: Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias

      This volume is an experiment: an inquiry into the possibilities for a prospective anthropology of utopia. Through a range of ethnographic contributions, it investigates ‘empirical utopias’ across the world, from…

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      Utopian Effects, Dystopian Pleasures

      Peter Fitting

      This collection brings together for the first time Peter Fitting’s writings about the utopian impulse as expressed in science fiction, fantasy, cinema, architecture, and cultural theory.

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