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  1. Utopia and Consciousness
    Author: Haney, William S.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9042033053; 9042033061; 9789042033054; 9789042033061
    Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts
    Subjects: Future in literature; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literatur; Utopias in literature; Utopie; Bewusstsein; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (152 pages)
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    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Content; Preface:; Chapter One: Utopia, Deconstruction and Sanskrit Poetics; Chapter Two: Utopia and Unity in Sanskrit Poetics; Chapter Three: Utopia, Presence, Repetition and Vedic Philosophy; Chapter Four: Utopia and James Joyce's Ulysses; Chapter Five: Utopia and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; Chapter Six: Utopia, the Self and the Fantastic in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Chapter Seven: Utopia, Soyinka's Ritual Drama, and The Mistake of the Intellect; Bibliography; Index

    In his book Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however, human civilization will never achieve utopia unless humans reach a state of pure consciousness in which they will use their full mental potential and avoid making blunders in life that would undermine the possibility of a utopia. This book develops a non-teleological, comparative poetics between Western and Sanskrit literary traditions by analyzing

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-151) and index
  2. Science fiction and the prediction of the future
    essays on foresight and fallacy
    Contributor: Westfahl, Gary (Publisher); Wong, Kin Yuen (Publisher); Chan, Amy Kit-sze (Publisher)
    Published: [2011]
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina ; London

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    Contributor: Westfahl, Gary (Publisher); Wong, Kin Yuen (Publisher); Chan, Amy Kit-sze (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780786484768
    RVK Categories: EC 6745
    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 27
    Subjects: Science fiction films; Science fiction; Future in literature; Forecasting in literature; Prognose; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Zukunft <Motiv>; Science-Fiction-Film
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 263 Seiten)
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    "Science fiction has always intrigued readers with depictions of an unforeseen future. Can the genre actually provide audiences with a glance into the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines the genre's predictions and breaks new ground by considering the prophetic functions of science fiction films, as well as science fiction literature"--Provided by publisher.

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  3. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    ISBN: 9780415995405; 041599540X; 9780203864159; 0203864158
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    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature; French literature; Future in literature; Literature and society; Renaissance; Französisch; Literatur; Renaissance; Zukunft <Motiv>; Gesellschaft; Englisch; Zukunft
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  4. Utopia and Consciousness
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    In his book Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however,... more

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    In his book Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however, human civilization will never achieve utopia unless humans reach a state of pure consciousness in which they will use their full mental potential and avoid making blunders in life that would undermine the possibility of a utopia. This book develops a non-teleological, comparative poetics between Western and Sanskrit literary traditions by analyzing

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9789042033061; 9042033061
    Series: Consciousness, Literature & the Arts
    Subjects: Utopias in literature; Utopias in literature; Future in literature; Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English; Literature; Utopias in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (152 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index. - Description based on print version record
  5. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Contributor: Brady, Andrea (MitwirkendeR); Butterworth, Emily (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

    1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of... more

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    1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- 4. Turkish futures : prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 5. 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding' : Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- 7. Planning ahead : a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- 8. The future now : chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- 9. Prophetic architecture : Agrippa d'Aubigne in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- 10. Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- 11. Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 12. 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations' : the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Brady, Andrea (MitwirkendeR); Butterworth, Emily (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780203864159; 9781135191917; 9781135191955; 9781135191962
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    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: English literature; French literature; Future in literature; Literature and society; Renaissance
    Scope: 1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)
  6. Science Fiction Resource Guide
    Published: 2006

    Special Subject Virtual Libraries ; is "This page contains an extensive collection of links to SF resources on the Net. Subject areas include other archives and resource guides, authors, art and artists, bibliographies, movies, television,... more

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    Special Subject Virtual Libraries ; is "This page contains an extensive collection of links to SF resources on the Net. Subject areas include other archives and resource guides, authors, art and artists, bibliographies, movies, television, bookstores, book reviews, role-playing games, zines, etc. Some of the topics include Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne, H G Wells, Star Wars, Star Trek, nanotechnology, vampire fiction, and more."

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: SF-Lovers Home Page
    Subjects: science fiction; literature; resources; reviews; Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English; Science fiction; Future in literature
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  7. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Contributor: Brady, Andrea (MitwirkendeR); Butterworth, Emily (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

    1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of... more

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    1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- 4. Turkish futures : prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 5. 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding' : Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- 7. Planning ahead : a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- 8. The future now : chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- 9. Prophetic architecture : Agrippa d'Aubigne in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- 10. Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- 11. Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 12. 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations' : the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Brady, Andrea (MitwirkendeR); Butterworth, Emily (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780203864159; 9781135191917; 9781135191955; 9781135191962
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    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: English literature; French literature; Future in literature; Literature and society; Renaissance
    Scope: 1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)
  8. Worlds within women
    myth and mythmaking in fantastic literature by women
    Author: Shinn, Thelma J.
    Published: c1986; 2024
    Publisher:  Greenwood Press, New York, N.Y ; Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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    ISBN: 9798216039549; 0313044791; 9780313044793; 0313251010; 9780313251016
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    Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 22
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American; American fiction; Women and literature; Future in literature; Myth in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 214 p), 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index
  9. A genealogy of cyborgothic
    aesthetics and ethics in the age of posthumanism
    Author: Yi, Dongshin
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey

    A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and... more

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    A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and ethical practice that can enable a posthumanist relationship between human and non-human beings as he examines novels like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Arrowsmith alongside philosophical and critical works by Edmund Burke, William James, and others

     
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    ISBN: 9781409400394; 1282524755; 9780754699088; 9781282524750
    Subjects: English literature; Future in literature; Literature and morals; Ethics in literature; American literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (164 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beyond "The Ruin of Representation"; 1 A Beautiful Attendant: The Rise of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful; 2 A Beautiful Monster: The Fall of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful; 3 Van Helsing's Dilemma: Science and Mill's Utilitarianism; 4 A Humanistic Science in a Pragmatic Society: Re-Reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith; 5 The Birth of Cyborgothic: Mothering the Cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It; Works Cited; Index
  10. Cy-Borges
    memories of the posthuman in the work of Jorge Luis Borges
    Contributor: Herbrechter, Stefan (Hrsg.)
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Bucknell Univ. Press, Lewisburg, Pa.

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    Contributor: Herbrechter, Stefan (Hrsg.)
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    ISBN: 9780838757154
    Subjects: Technology in literature; Future in literature; Future in literature; Technology in literature
    Other subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986); Borges
    Scope: 224 S.
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    ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editors� Note""; ""Introduction: Did Someone Say ��Cy-Borges��?""; ""Borges: Post- or Transhuman?""; ""Babelation""; ""Borges, Technology, and the Same Infinite Substance as the Night""; ""Of Mirrors, Encyclopedias, and the Virtual""; ""Surviving in Borges, or, the Memory of Objects after the End of the World""; ""Borges and the Trauma of Posthuman History""; ""Archival Imaginings""; ""Borges�s Canny Laughter: ��a joyce for ever��""; ""��The Abysmal Problem of Time��: Dubbing Borges�s Garden""

    ""The Unrelated Future: Borges, Posthumanism, and the Temptations of Analogy""""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""
  11. Science fiction and the prediction of the future
    essays on foresight and fallacy
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C

    "Science fiction has always intrigued readers with depictions of an unforeseen future. Can the genre actually provide audiences with a glance into the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines... more

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    "Science fiction has always intrigued readers with depictions of an unforeseen future. Can the genre actually provide audiences with a glance into the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines the genre's predictions and breaks new ground by considering the prophetic functions of science fiction films, as well as science fiction literature"--Provided by publisher

     
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    ISBN: 9780786458417; 1283018748; 9781283018746
    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 27
    Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser. ; v.27
    Subjects: Science fiction; Future in literature; Science fiction films; Forecasting in literature; Science fiction -- History and criticism; Future, The, in literature; Science fiction films -- History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vi, 263 p)
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    pt. 1. Cosmic visionspt. 2. The practice of prophecy.
  12. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it... more

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    This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity

     
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    ISBN: 041599540X; 9780203864159; 0203864158; 9780415995405; 9781135191962; 9781282376809
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    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: French literature; English literature; Renaissance; Future in literature; Literature and society
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xx, 242 p)
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    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000; Introduction; 1 In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism; 2 Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country; 3 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia; 4 Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other; 5 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time

    6 France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil7 Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and All's Well That Ends Well; 8 The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon; 9 Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris; 10 Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639); 11 Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications

    12 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural PhilosophyContributors; Index