Utopian Visions and Revisions: Or the Uses of Ideal Worlds

by Artur Blaim

Overview

The book employs the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia in the analysis of a variety of phenomena such as literature, cinema, rock music, literary/cultural theories, as well as the practice of literature (socialist realism) and socio-political life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631675656
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/22/2016
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Artur Blaim is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He is the author of «Gazing in Useless Wonder. English Utopian Fiction 1516–1800» (2013) and «Robinson Crusoe and His Doubles» (2016). He has co-edited several volumes on utopian/dystopian fiction and cinema like «Spectres of Utopia. Theory, Practice, Conventions» (2012) and «Mediated Utopias» (2015). His main research interests include utopia/dystopia in literature, film and other media, William Shakespeare, cultural semiotics, and desert island narratives.

Table of Contents

Utopian fiction – Utopianism – Literary utopias and dystopias – Filmic utopias and dystopias – Anti-utopia – Rock lyrics – Jewish characters in literature – Scientific motifs in literature – "Utopia" – "New Atlantis" – "Gulliver’s Travels" – Thomas More – Francis Bacon – William Shakespeare – George Orwell – William Golding – Tadeusz Konwicki