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Strange Vistas: Perspectives on the Utopian

Strange Vistas: Perspectives on the Utopian

Gruszewska-Blaim, Ludmila
Galant, Justyna
Komsta, Marta

Hardcover

Series: Mediated Fictions, Book 16

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631786662
ISBN13: 9783631786666
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Sep 30 2019
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary reality. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such as philosophy, translation, music, social and political issues, like workers' movements and ideology, exploring global utopian fiction from medieval Persian poetry, through late 19th- and early 20th-century narratives, to contemporary Russian and British dystopian novels. Taken together, the texts attest to the lasting allure of the hopeful utopian visions as well as to the pertinence of the dystopian warnings contained in the darker fictive scenarios and social speculations.

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