The Nowhere Bible: Utopia, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Frauke Uhlenbruch

Автор: Daniele Fioretti
Название: Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature
ISBN: 331946552X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319465524
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The book also takes into consideration four of the most influential literary journals in Italy: Officina, il menabo, il verri, and Nuovi Argomenti, that played a central role in the cultural and political debate on utopia in Italy.

Автор: Heybach & Sheffield
Название: Dystopia & Education
ISBN: 1623962846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623962845
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an as-of-yet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy and practices that have come to demarcate the era of NCLB and RTT. The authors in this collection employ dystopian themes found in literature, film, visual art, and video games as the lens for that critical inquiry. As such Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy is an essential contribution to the philosophical/critical tradition in educational scholarship. It is especially valuable because the inquiry undertaken is from a new perspective-one that will extend the critical tradition into a yet unexplored arena. Given the educational climate established by NCLB and RTT, this collection is especially important to the ongoing critical analysis of such policy mandates. There is also a significantly important timeliness to this book given NCLB's utopian expectation of universal academic proficiency among American schoolchildren by the year 2014: as educators race to achieve such a noble yet na ve goal, this collection of essays examines the educational environment that has been enacted to achieve such ends, and describes our current state as a utopia-gone wrong.

Автор: Heybach & Sheffield
Название: Dystopia & Education
ISBN: 1623962838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623962838
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Описание: Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an as-of-yet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy and practices that have come to demarcate the era of NCLB and RTT. The authors in this collection employ dystopian themes found in literature, film, visual art, and video games as the lens for that critical inquiry. As such Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy is an essential contribution to the philosophical/critical tradition in educational scholarship. It is especially valuable because the inquiry undertaken is from a new perspective-one that will extend the critical tradition into a yet unexplored arena. Given the educational climate established by NCLB and RTT, this collection is especially important to the ongoing critical analysis of such policy mandates. There is also a significantly important timeliness to this book given NCLB's utopian expectation of universal academic proficiency among American schoolchildren by the year 2014: as educators race to achieve such a noble yet na ve goal, this collection of essays examines the educational environment that has been enacted to achieve such ends, and describes our current state as a utopia-gone wrong.

Автор: M. Keith Booker
Название: Dystopia
ISBN: 1429837330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781429837330
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Описание: <p><strong>Great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. </strong> </p> <p>The addition of the word ""dystopia"" to our common, everyday vocabulary is indicative of both a dark turn taken by our popular culture, and a broader pessimistic turn in the general mood. As evidenced by the success of dark cinematic visions of the future-from <em>Blade Runner</em> (1982), to the <em>Terminator</em> sequence, to the <em>Matrix</em> trilogy-something in our natures respond to stories based in such visions of the future. The events of recent times -- September 11, 2001 being the most telling example - and their attendant sharpening of focus on such concepts as national security versus the privacy of citizens, have certainly contributed to the pervasive sense of anxiety that seems to have developed in our society, and which seems so readily to find catharsis in dystopian dramas. However, as this volume shows, the concept of dystopia is much older. To be dystopian, a work needs to foreground the oppressive society in which it is set, using that setting as an opportunity to comment in a critical way on some other society, typically that of the author and/or the audience. In other worlds, the bleak dystopian world should encourage the reader or viewer to think critically about it, then to transfer this critical thinking to his or her own world. </p> <p>Edited by M. Keith Booker, Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. For readers who are studying it for the first time, a four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches to both literature and film. Works discussed include <em>Utopia; Looking Backward; We; Brave New World; Anthem; A Clockwork Orange; Make Room! Make Room!; Fahrenheit 451; Nineteen Eighty-Four; The Handmaid's Tale<em>; and <em>Little Brother. </em> </p> <p>Rounding out the volume are a list of literary works not mentioned in the book that concern the theme of dystopia and as well as a bibliography of critical sources for readers seeking to study this timeless theme in greater depth. </p>

Автор: Brown Kate
Название: Dispatches from Dystopia
ISBN: 022624279X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226242798
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" This book narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. It also examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.

Автор: Ayres Ed
Название: Defying Dystopia: Going on with the Human Journey After Technology Fails Us
ISBN: 1412863236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412863230
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Описание: To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet science confirms that due to misuse of technology and environmental abuse, our world is in grave danger of ruin.

Автор: Godfrey
Название: Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris
ISBN: 1137523395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137523396
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Описание: This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space is a key factor in utopian fiction, often a barometer of mankind’s successful relationship with nature, or an indicator of danger. Emerging and critically acclaimed scholars consider the legacy of two great utopian writers, exploring their use of space and time in the creation of sites in which contemporary social concerns are investigated and reordered. A variety of locations is featured, including Morris’s quasi-fourteenth century London, the lush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English countryside, the high-rises of the future and the vertiginous landscape of another Earth beyond the stars.

Автор: Hintz, Carrie
Название: Utopian and dystopian writing for children and young adults
ISBN: 0415803640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415803649
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.