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  1. Periodizing Jameson
    dialectics, the university, and the desire for narrative
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Northwestern Univ. Press, Evanston, Ill.

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9780810129818
    Series: Flashpoints ; 16
    Subjects: Marxist criticism; Postmodernism (Literature); Marxian school of sociology; Dialectical materialism
    Other subjects: Jameson, Fredric
    Scope: XXIX, 269 S., graph. Darst.
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    Introduction: betraying JamesonThe return of narrative (1960s)Theoretical modernisms (1970s)Symptomologies and intimations of the global (1980s-1990s)Interlude: from the symbolic to the real"The point is..." : on the four conditions of Marxist cultural studiesUnfinished business : on the dialectic of the university in late capitalismOther modernisms : on the desire called utopiaAfterword: representing Jameson.
  2. Shockwaves of possibility
    essays on science fiction, globalization, and utopia
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Lang, Oxford [u. a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783034307413; 9783035306422
    RVK Categories: EC 6745
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; 15
    Subjects: Science fiction; Utopias in literature; Literature and globalization; Modernism (Literature)
    Scope: XIX, 308 p., Ill., graph. Darst., 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [275] - 293
  3. Becoming utopian
    the culture and politics of radical transformation
    Author: Moylan, Tom
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires political activists and science fiction writers alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the theory, the practice and... more

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    "A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires political activists and science fiction writers alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the theory, the practice and the urgency of the utopian impulse. From the theoretical writings of Frederic Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou to science fiction works by Kim Stanley Robinson and China Mieville, from Latin American liberation theology to ecological activism and the radical movements of 1968, Hunger and Hope explores the many manifestations of utopian thought. Along the way, Moylan reveals the ways in which humans can confront and transform the global environmental, economic, political and cultural crises that beset us today"--

     
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    Contributor: Levitas, Ruth (VerfasserIn eines Vorworts); Wegner, Phillip E. (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781350190085
    RVK Categories: MD 6400 ; EC 6856
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Utopias; Utopias in literature
    Scope: xii, 300 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 271-287
  4. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0520228294; 0520228286; 9780520228290
    RVK Categories: EC 6855
    Subjects: Utopie; Literatur
    Scope: XXVI, 297 S.
  5. Shockwaves of possibility
    essays on science fiction, globalization, and Utopia
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Lang, Oxford

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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3034307411; 9783034307413
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    RVK Categories: EC 6745
    DDC Categories: 800
    Series: Ralahine utopian studies ; 15
    Subjects: Science-Fiction-Literatur; Utopie; Globalisierung; Literatur
    Scope: XIX, 308 Seiten, Illustrationen, 225 mm x 150 mm, 480 g
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite [275] - 293
  6. Postcategorical Utopia
    James Baldwin and the Political Unconscious of Imagined Futures
    Author: Baccolini, Raffaella
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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

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

     
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    Contributor: Balasopoulos, Antonis; Fischer, Joachim; Kelly, Michael G.; Moylan, Tom; Wegner, Phillip E.; Kilpelainen, Pekka
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800792340
    DDC Categories: 100
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; v.29
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
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  7. Zone Theory
    Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds
    Author: Baccolini, Raffaella
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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

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    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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    Contributor: Balasopoulos, Antonis; Fischer, Joachim; Kelly, Michael G.; Moylan, Tom; Wegner, Phillip E.; Popov, Alexander
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800794399
    RVK Categories: EC 6745 ; EC 6855
    DDC Categories: 800
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; v.28
    Subjects: Science-Fiction-Literatur; Utopie; Ecocriticism; Posthumanismus
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (370 pages)
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  8. The Polyphony of Utopia
    Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler
    Author: Baccolini, Raffaella
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    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 Bellamy, Alexander Bogdanov, Ivan... more

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    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 Bellamy, Alexander Bogdanov, Ivan Yefremov, Marge Piercy and Octavia E. Butler.

     
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    Contributor: Balasopoulos, Antonis; Fischer, Joachim; Kelly, Michael G.; Moylan, Tom; Wegner, Phillip E.; Veselá, Pavla
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781803740560
    DDC Categories: 800; 420
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; v.31
    Subjects: Utopie; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
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  9. Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics
    Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism
    Author: Suvin, Darko
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin’s critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium, excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction,... more

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    This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin’s critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium, excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, Victorian Science Fiction, and Defined by a Hollow. From essential programmatic statements charting the parabolic logic of science fiction and establishing the parameters of a theoretically supple and rigorously historical SF criticism to confrontations with both a postmodernist abdication of politics and a «neutral» sociology of literature, these writings reflect the evolving thought of the preeminent contemporary theorist of science fiction. Underpinned by a method of heretical cognition and the steadfast insistence of utopian possibility, the varied essays, interviews, poems, and polemics presented here—encompassing four decades of sustained thought on the topic—offer up the affirmation of freedom as the truest horizon of science fiction. «For more than five decades, Darko Suvin’s has been the pre-eminent voice in science-fiction criticism; he is the author of the main critical oeuvre with which all other serious work in the field must engage, even if in disagreement. This excellent collection gathers together many of his most important essays, and will be equally important for beginners in SF criticism and for veterans.»(Carl Freedman, William A. Reid Professor, Louisiana State University)«An indispensable collection of some 40 essays by one of the central figures in bringing theoretical rigor and understanding to the criticism of science fiction and utopia.»(Peter Fitting, Professor Emeritus, Innis College, University of Toronto)«Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics is a collection well named. Over the decades traced by these essays’ arguments, we can see science fiction form the lines of Suvin’s curiosity just as much as he has formed our ways of reading it, of responding to its historicity and evasion or embrace of the multiple conflicts embedded within or merely potential within that historicity.»(Patricia McManus, Senior Lecturer, Center for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton)...

     
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    Contributor: Baccolini, Raffaella (Herausgeber); Balasopoulos, Antonis (Herausgeber); Fischer, Joachim (Herausgeber); Griffin, Michael J. (Herausgeber); Jacobs, Naomi (Herausgeber); Kelly, Michael G. (Herausgeber); Moylan, Tom (Herausgeber); Wegner, Phillip E. (Herausgeber); Smith, Eric (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800796195
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; 23
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (708 Seiten), Illustrationen
  10. American Nightmares
    Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction
    Author: Romanzi, Valentina
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    «Valentina Romanzi’s study is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the complex and rich debate on the question of genres and... more

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    «Valentina Romanzi’s study is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the complex and rich debate on the question of genres and subgenres, while at the same time offering a fresh perspective. Eloquent and very well written, this volume reveals America’s fascination with catastrophic future scenarios, including the post-apocalyptic, delving into the issues that surround critical dystopia, progress, hope and fear. The close readings offer lucid, insightful interpretations of texts that range from SF literary ancestor, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’s award winning The Testaments, sequel to the acclaimed The Handmaid’s Tale.»(Eleonora Rao, Università degli Studi di Salerno)　This volume investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction. Using a methodological framework based on sociology, it theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest in dystopian worlds.　Part One illustrates the methodological framework, exploring the concept of dystopia, offering an overview of the American myths and of their current status and spotlighting some relevant sociological theories.　Part Two applies the proposed methodological framework to four texts, investigating the sub-genres of political, technological and environmental dystopia. The primary works, chosen to show both the relevance of the abovementioned American myths to dystopian narratives and the pervasiveness of the genre across the media, are Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (2019), Dave Eggers’s The Circle (2013), David Cage’s video game Detroit: Become Human (2018), and the Hughes Brothers’ 2010 movie The Book of Eli.

     
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    Contributor: Balasopoulos, Antonis (Herausgeber); Fischer, Joachim (Herausgeber); Griffin, Michael J. (Herausgeber); Kelly, Michael G. (Herausgeber); Moylan, Tom (Herausgeber); Jacobs, Naomi (Herausgeber); Wegner, Phillip E. (Herausgeber); Baccolini, Raffaella (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800797161
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    RVK Categories: HV 18130 ; HV 15990
    DDC Categories: 810; 420
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; 24
    Subjects: Roman; Anti-Utopie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 Seiten), Illustrationen
  11. Zone Theory
    Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds
    Author: Popov, Alexander
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    «This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world’s situation becomes... more

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    «This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world’s situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political economy more obvious, this complicated canon is becoming increasingly important: no longer just a minor literary genre, but rather a crucial aid to thinking about our social systems. The better we understand utopian narrative strategies, the more fully we can put them to use, so Popov’s excellent study is timely and interesting.»(Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future)«Alexander Popov’s Zone Theory deftly guides us through the thickets of utopian theory and shows us why we should care, with fresh and convincing readings of a variety of science fictional texts. The writers explored here range from the usual suspects—Le Guin, Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson—to some not usually classed as utopian or dystopian, such as John Crowley and Brooke Bolander. Popov builds on the work of Tom Moylan and Fredric Jameson while adding important perspectives such as considering utopia as a hyperobject and using utopian theory to read the incongruous, unresolvable Zones of science fiction such as the Strugatskys’ Roadside Picnic and Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy. I am happy to do as Popov suggests: to read utopias not only as ongoing processes rather than finished blueprints, as Moylan has taught us, but also to see them as a way of learning about the world. Utopia, says Popov, is "an apparatus for registering difference at the level of societal organization" and thus is always open to new discoveries and new antinomies: anti-utopias lead to anti-anti-utopias and so on without end.»(Brian Attebery, Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University, author of Stories about Stories: Fantasy & the Remaking of Myth)Zone Theory reinterprets utopia as an unceasing dialectic between totality and novelty which keeps on discovering new subjectivities and genres. Through close readings within a wide corpus of SF works, it meditates on utopian forms such as critical utopia, critical dystopia, heterotopia, atopia and ecotopia, ultimately tying them to the notion of anti-anti-utopia: a form of forms capacious enough to house a permanently open multiplicity of beings. “This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world’s situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political economy more obvious, this complicated canon is becoming increasingly important: no longer just a minor literary genre, but rather a crucial aid to thinking about our social systems. The better we understand utopian narrative strategies, the more fully we can put them to use, so Popov’s excellent study is timely and interesting.”Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future"Alexander Popov’s Zone Theory deftly guides us through the thickets of utopian theory and shows us why we should care, with fresh and convincing readings of a variety of science fictional texts. The writers explored here range from the usual suspects—Le Guin, Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson—to some not usually classed as utopian or dystopian, such as John Crowley and Brooke Bolander. Popov builds on the work of Tom Moylan and Fredric Jameson while adding important perspectives such as considering utopia as a hyperobject and using utopian theory to read the incongruous, unresolvable Zones of science fiction such as the Strugatskys’ Roadside Picnic and Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy. I am happy to do as Popov suggests: to read utopias not only as ongoing processes rather than finished blueprints, as Moylan has taught us, but also to see them as a way of learning about the world. Utopia, says Popov, is “an apparatus for registering difference at the level of societal organization” and thus is always open to new discoveries and new antinomies: anti-utopias lead to anti-anti-utopias and so on without end."Brian Attebery, Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University, author of Stories about Stories: Fantasy & the Remaking of Myth...

     
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    Contributor: Baccolini, Raffaella (Herausgeber); Balasopoulos, Antonis (Herausgeber); Fischer, Joachim (Herausgeber); Kelly, Michael G. (Herausgeber); Moylan, Tom (Herausgeber); Wegner, Phillip E. (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800794399
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    RVK Categories: EC 6745 ; EC 6855
    DDC Categories: 800; 420
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; 28
    Subjects: Science-Fiction-Literatur; Utopie; Ecocriticism; Posthumanismus; Alexander; Alexander Popov; Antonis; Baccolini; Balasopoulos; dystopian studies; ecocriticism; Fiction; Fischer; Joachim; Kelly; Mason; Michael; Moylan; Phillip; Popov; posthumanism; Raffaella; Ralahine Utopian Studies; Science; Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds; science fictional studies; Space; Theory; Tony; Utopia; Utopian studies; Wegner; Worlds; Zone; Zone Theory
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten), Illustrationen
  12. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0520926765; 0585466092; 1597346683; 9780520926769; 9780585466095; 9781597346689
    RVK Categories: EC 6855
    Subjects: Literature, Comparative / American and Russian; Literature, Comparative / Russian and American; Roman américain / Histoire et critique; Utopies dans la littérature; Littérature comparée / Américaine et russe; Littérature comparée / Russe et américaine; Roman russe / Histoire et critique; Modernisme (Littérature) / États-Unis; Modernisme (Littérature) / Grande-Bretagne; Modernisme (Littérature) / Russie; Espace et temps dans la littérature; Nationalisme dans la littérature; Communauté dans la littérature; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Utopias in literature; Utopias; Bellettrie; Utopieën; Modernisme (cultuur); Utopias; Utopias in literature; Literatur; Utopie
    Other subjects: Orwell, George / 1903-1950; More, Thomas / Sir, Saint / 1478-1535; Orwell, George / 1903-1950 / Critique et interprétation; More, Thomas / Sir, saint / 1478-1535 / Utopia
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 297 pages)
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    Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities -- - Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity -- - The Institutional Being of Genre -- - Space and Modernity -- - Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia -- - Utopia and the Birth of Nations -- - Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions -- - Utopiques and Conceptualized Space -- - Crime and History -- - Utopia and the Nation-Thing -- - Utopia and the Work of Nations -- - Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward -- - Remembering -- - The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac -- - Fragmentation -- - Consumerism and Class -- - "The Associations of Our Active Lifetime" -- - Forgetting -- - The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" -- - Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity -- - The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel -- - "Nameless, Formless Things" -- - "Gaseous Vertebrate" -- - Simplification and the New Subject of History -- - A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed -- - Reclaiming We for Utopia -- - The City and the Country -- - Happiness and Freedom -- - The Play of Possible Worlds -- - We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon -- - Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- - From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia -- - Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia" -- - The Crisis of Modern Reason -- - Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality" -- - "If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals
  13. Shockwaves of possibility
    essays on science fiction, globalization, and utopia
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern, Switzerland

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783034307413; 9783035306422
    Series: Ralahine utopian studies ; Volume 15
    Subjects: Science fiction; Utopias in literature; Literature and globalization; Modernism (Literature); Utopie; Globalisierung; Science-Fiction-Literatur
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (333 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  14. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: c2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

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  15. Shockwaves of possibility
    essays on science fiction, globalization, and utopia
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014; © 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern, Switzerland

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783034307413; 9783035306422
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; Volume 15
    Subjects: Science fiction; Utopias in literature; Literature and globalization; Modernism (Literature); Globalisierung; Utopie; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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  16. Periodizing Jameson
    Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Chicago

    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: To Name the System -- Introduction: Betraying Jameson -- Part I. Mediations -- or, The Triumph of Theory -- 1. The Return of Narrative (1960s) -- 2. Theoretical Modernisms (1970s) -- 3. Symptomologies... more

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    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: To Name the System -- Introduction: Betraying Jameson -- Part I. Mediations -- or, The Triumph of Theory -- 1. The Return of Narrative (1960s) -- 2. Theoretical Modernisms (1970s) -- 3. Symptomologies and Intimations of the Global (1980s-1990s) -- Interlude: From the Symbolic to the Real -- Part II. Untimely Modernisms -- 4. "The Point Is . . .": On the Four Conditions of Marxist Cultural Studies -- 5. Unfinished Business: On the Dialectic of the University in Late Capitalism -- 6. Other Modernisms: On the Desire Called Utopia -- Afterword: Representing Jameson -- Notes -- Index

     
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  17. Utopian Effects, Dystopian Pleasures
    Author: Fitting, Peter
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    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. These wide-ranging essays trace the constant reconsideration of... more

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    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. These wide-ranging essays trace the constant reconsideration of the utopian project itself over the past four decades, from its mid-twentieth century period of decline to its revival in counter-cultural science fiction of the 1960s and ‘70s, its second decline with the «dystopian turn» in film, and the rise of feminist pessimism in the 1980s. These pages reveal what popular utopian, dystopian, and science-fiction narratives tell us about today’s most pressing political issues, including gender equity, education reform, technological change, capitalist excess, state-sanctioned violence, and the challenges of effecting lasting political change. Through analyses of various popular genres and media, the author demonstrates how utopian visions written from particular political perspectives transcend narrowly partisan concerns to stoke our collective desire for another world and a more adequate human future, teaching us how to become the citizens and subjects that a utopian society demands.

     
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    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; 21
    Subjects: Utopie; Literatur
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  18. Transgressive Utopianism
    Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson
    Contributor: Balasopoulos, Antonis (Herausgeber); Baccolini, Raffaella (Herausgeber); Fischer, Joachim (Herausgeber); Griffin, Michael J. (Herausgeber); Kelly, Michael G. (Herausgeber); Moylan, Tom (Herausgeber); Jacobs, Naomi (Herausgeber); Wegner, Phillip E. (Herausgeber); Tower Sargent, Lyman (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
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    In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham, she became the first and, so far, only, professor of utopian studies. This choice symbolized the centrality... more

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    In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham, she became the first and, so far, only, professor of utopian studies. This choice symbolized the centrality of utopianism to her life, thought, and educational practice. In three books, each in their own way groundbreaking, a fourth book co-authored by one of us, and in important articles, her work falls into four primary areas: political theory, feminism, environmentalism, and intentional communities, with much of her work intersecting two, three, or even all four. And in all her work, she brings the lens of utopianism to bear on the subject and, in doing so, illuminates both utopianism and the subject at hand. The volume honors Sargisson’s contributions to the field of utopian studies, with contributions by Ibtisam Ahmed, Raffaella Baccolini, David M. Bell, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, Chris Coates, Elena Colombo, Davina Cooper, Rhiannon Firth, Ruth Levitas, Sarah Lohmann, Almudena Machado-Jiménez, Dunja M. Mohr, Tom Moylan, Robyn Muir, José Reis, Lyman Tower Sargent, Lucy Sargisson, Simon Spiegel, Maria Varsam, and Laura Winter. «Utopian scholars and practical utopians alike can be nourished by the richly diverse articles of this touching tribute to an important activist scholar. This timely collection is a treasure trove of vital insights into how thinkers and activists sharing a vision of a better world can collaborate to help move us toward it. Sargisson personifies key utopian themes in her engaged teaching, feminist and ecological sensibilities, literary analysis, on-site communal research, and insistence on the dynamic link between utopia and politics. By transgressing disciplinary and normative boundaries that confine our imaginations and actions, she frees us to explore our aspirations and imperfections, our individuality and connection to others, our powers and vulnerabilities.»(Michael S. Cummings, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar)«I have known Lucy since 1999 when, together with Jim Arnold, we formed the initial secretariat for the newly reinvigorated Utopian Studies Society. As we came to know her, it was evident to us that Lucy was greatly respected by colleagues and students alike. Some of them have honoured her in this volume. Her genuine openness to collaboration and her spirit of positivity contributed significantly to the ultimate success of the endeavour. Though our professional lives were lived in very different settings, we shared a love of the Scottish landscape and an enduring interest in Utopian and communitarian projects, historical and contemporary. The warmth and sincerity of her friendship is valued by very many people among whom I am privileged to be included. If he were still with us on this earth, I know that Jim would be in wholehearted agreement.»(Lorna Davidson, Retired Director, New Lanark Conservation Trust and former Secretary of the Utopian Studies Society)...

     
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    Subjects: Utopie; Literatur; Film
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  19. Shockwaves of Possibility
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Bern ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

    Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics.... more

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    Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism in SF and utopian studies, the book opens with a global periodizing history that shows the inseparability of SF from developments in other cultural fields. It goes on to examine literature, film, television, comics, and animation in order to demonstrate SF’s unique effectiveness for grappling with the upheavals brought about by globalization. Shockwaves of Possibility proves SF’s vitality in the brave new world of the twenty-first century, as it illuminates the contours of the present and educates our desire for a radically other future. «[...] this is an important study that will shape our conversations about science fiction and form for years to come, one that irrefutably demonstrates the critical importance of this genre to the literature of social justice.»(American Literary History, ALH Online Review Series XIII)Read the full review here...

     
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    Subjects: Science-Fiction-Literatur; Literatur; Utopie; Globalisierung
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  20. The Shape of Utopia
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Bern ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

    Upon its original publication in 1970, Robert C. Elliott’s The Shape of Utopia influenced both some of the major scholars of an emerging utopian and science fiction studies, including Darko Suvin, Louis Marin and Fredric Jameson, and authors of new... more

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    Upon its original publication in 1970, Robert C. Elliott’s The Shape of Utopia influenced both some of the major scholars of an emerging utopian and science fiction studies, including Darko Suvin, Louis Marin and Fredric Jameson, and authors of new utopian fiction ranging from Ursula K. Le Guin to Kim Stanley Robinson. The book establishes a deep genetic link between utopia and satire, and offers scintillating readings of classic works by Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Aldous Huxley and others. It charts the rise of an insidious «fear of utopia» that comes to characterize the first half of the twentieth century and investigates some of the aesthetic problems raised by the efforts to portray a utopian society, before concluding with brilliant speculations on the emerging practice of «anti-anti-utopia» – the reinvention of utopia for contemporary times. This Ralahine Classics edition also includes a new introduction by Phillip E. Wegner which situates the book in its context and argues for its continued significance today; a 1971 review of the book by the late author of utopian science fiction, Joanna Russ; and an opening tribute by one of Elliott’s former students, Kim Stanley Robinson. «In 1970, Robert C. Elliott wrote, ‘the theme of utopia no longer engages the imagination. … Utopia is a bad word today not because we despair of being able to achieve it but because we fear it.’ His groundbreaking study, ‘The Shape of Utopia’, confronted this fear of utopia eloquently. A still challenging and important study of the formalistic, literary and anthropological aspects of utopia, it has now been reissued with a thoughtful Introduction by Phillip E. Wegner and a wonderful tribute by Kim Stanley Robinson. Elliott influenced scholars and thinkers such as Darko Suvin, Fredric Jameson, Louis Marin and Tom Moylan and it is timely to confront our fear of utopia again under the guidance of Elliott.» (Nicole Pohl, Reader in the Department of English Literature and Modern Languages at Oxford Brookes University and General Editor of ‘Utopian Studies’) «The originality of Elliott’s book on Utopia lay not only in its unsurpassed generic placement of such texts (their structural opposition to the satiric curse), but also in situating the fear of Utopias at the center of analysis, along with the centrality of Utopian aesthetics. Future Utopias will raise new problems and develop new answers, but they will always contain within themselves the origins Elliott so ably dramatizes here.» (Fredric Jameson, Professor in the Program in Literature at Duke University, author of ‘Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions,’ 2005, and, most recently, ‘Representing Capital’, 2011).

     
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  21. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2002
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    Subjects: Utopias; Utopias in literature; Literatur; Utopie
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  22. Economic Inequality
    Utopian Explorations
    Author: Morris, Donald
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  24. Imaginary communities
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    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
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    Subjects: American fiction; Utopias in literature; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Russian fiction; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Literature); Space and time in literature; Nationalism in literature; Community in literature
    Other subjects: Orwell, George (1903-1950); More, Thomas Saint (1478-1535): Utopia
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  25. Periodizing Jameson
    dialectics, the university, and the desire for narrative
    Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
    Published: 2014
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    Introduction: betraying Jameson --The return of narrative (1960s) --Theoretical modernisms (1970s) --Symptomologies and intimations of the global (1980s-1990s) --Interlude: from the symbolic to the real --"The point is ..." : on the four conditions... more

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    Introduction: betraying Jameson --The return of narrative (1960s) --Theoretical modernisms (1970s) --Symptomologies and intimations of the global (1980s-1990s) --Interlude: from the symbolic to the real --"The point is ..." : on the four conditions of Marxist cultural studies --Unfinished business : on the dialectic of the university in late capitalism --Other modernisms : on the desire called utopia --Afterword: representing Jameson.

     
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    Series: Flashpoints
    Subjects: Dialectical materialism; Marxian school of sociology; Postmodernism (Literature); Marxist criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Dialectical materialism; Marxian school of sociology; Marxist criticism; Postmodernism (Literature); Languages & Literatures; Literature - General
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