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245	0	0	_aFuturescapes : _bspace in utopian and science fiction discourses / _cedited by Ralph Pordzik.
264		1	_aAmsterdam ; _aNew York, NY : _bRodopi, _c2009.
300			_a1 online resource (366 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSpatial practices, _x1871-689X ; _v9
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material -- _tAcknowledgements -- _tNotes on Contributors -- _tThe Overlaid Spaces of Utopia -- _tThe Translation of Paradise: Thomas More’s Utopia and the Poetics of Cultural Exchange / _rGabriela Schmidt -- _tUtopia, Nation-Building, and the Dissolution of the Nation-State Around 1900 / _rHans Ulrich Seeber -- _tDiscoveries of the Future: Herbert G. Wells and the Eugenic Utopia / _rRichard Nate -- _tPersistence of Obedience: Theological Space and Ritual Conversion in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four / _rRalph Pordzik -- _t‘And is not every Manor a Little Common Wealth?’ Nostalgia, Utopia and the Country House / _rNicole Pohl -- _tThe Watchdogs of Eden: Chesterton and Buchan Look at the Present of the Future / _rChristoph Ehland -- _tThe Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality / _rElizabeth Leane -- _t“The Tower of Babble”?1 The Role and Function of Fictive Languages in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction / _rDunja M. Mohr -- _tRethinking Deterritorialization: Utopian and Apocalyptic Space in Recent American Fiction / _rMartina Mittag -- _tSpace Construction as Cultural Practice: Reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer with Respect to Postmodern Concepts of Space / _rDoreen Hartmann -- _tPeripheral Cosmopolitans: Caribbeanness as Transnational Utopia? / _rSaskia Schabio -- _t“Utopian and Cynical Elements”: Chaplin, Cinema, and Weimar Critical Theory / _rAntonis Balasopoulos -- _tIndex.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aThis book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia . It intends to ‘map out’ on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias not so much as fictional texts about future change and transformation but as vital elements in a cultural process through which social, spatial and subjective identities are formed. Utopias can thus be read as textual systems implying a distinct spatial and temporal dimension; as ‘spatial practices’ that tend to naturalize a cultural and social construction – that of the ‘good life’, the radically improved welfare state, the Christian paradise, the counter-society, et cetera – and make that representation operational by interpellating their readers in some determinate relation to their givenness as sites of political and individual improvement. This volume is of interest for all scholars and students of literature who wish to explore the ways in which utopias of the past and recent present have circulated as media of cultural exchange and homogenization, as sites of cultural and linguistic appropriation and as foci for the spatial formation of national and regional identities in the English-speaking world.
650		0	_aUtopias in literature.
650		0	_aScience fiction _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aSpace in literature.
650		7	_aScience fiction. _2fast
650		7	_aSpace in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aUtopias in literature. _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast
700	1		_aPordzik, Ralph, _d1966-
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tFuturescapes. _dAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009 _z9042026022 _z9789042026025 _w(OCoLC)428006941
830		0	_aSpatial Practices _v9.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004357945.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042026032
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