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Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood

Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood

Mitchell, Sebastian

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1441195254
ISBN13: 9781441195258
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 20 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Utopia and Its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate how they construct, challenge and explore the ideas and forms of earlier utopian writings and the social and political ideals of their own periods. In this original and insightful study, Sebastian Mitchell demonstrates how literary utopias are often as much about the past as they are about the present and the future. Utopia and Its Discontents concludes by arguing against the idea that the utopian has been eclipsed by the dystopian in contemporary culture.

Topics covered include:

- Early political and philosophical authors, such as Plato and Thomas More

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