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Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia (Cultural Studies)
Thomas Moylan
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Paperback. A cultural studies examination of the 20th-century genre of dystopian fiction in the political and scholarly context of the evolution of science fiction studies and utopian studies since the 1960s. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation ... Read more
Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Westview Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780813397689
SKU
V9780813397689
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About Thomas Moylan
Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His publications include Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination and Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch.
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