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No place else : explorations in utopian and dystopian fiction / edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander.

Rabkin, Eric S. (Added Author). Greenberg, Martin Harry. (Added Author). Olander, Joseph D. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0585186413
  • ISBN: 9780585186412
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 278 pages)
  • Publisher: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1983.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Atavism and Utopia / Eric S. Rabkin -- The coming race: Hell? or paradise foretasted? / B.G. Knepper -- "The mirror up to nature": reflections of Victorianism in Samuel Butler's Erewhon / Thomas J. Remington -- Zamiatin's We / Gorman Beauchamp -- Olaf Stapledon's Last and first men / Eugene Goodheart -- On Brave new world / William Matter -- The shape of things to come: H.G. Wells and the rhetoric od Proteus / Ken Davis -- Mixing behaviorism and Utopia: the transformations of Walden two / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Utopia reconsidered: comments on 1984 / William Steinhoff -- Kurt Vonnegut's Player piano: an ambiguous technological dystopia / Howard P. Segal -- Mass degradation of humanity and massive contradictions in Bradbury's vision of America in Fahrenheit 451 / Jack Zipes -- On aggression: William Golding's Lord of the flies / Kathleen Woodward -- Robert Silverberg's The world inside / Merritt Abrash -- Chronosophy, aesthetics, and ethics in Le Guin's The dispossessed: an ambiguous Utopia / James W. Bittner.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:
English.
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Science fiction, English > History and criticism.
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Literature and science > English-speaking countries.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Dystopias in literature.
Science-fiction anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Science-fiction américaine > Histoire et critique.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Dystopies dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dystopias in literature.
Literature and science.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction, English.
Utopias in literature.
English-speaking countries.
Utopie
Literatur
Anti-Utopie
Fictie.
Science fiction.
Utopieën.
Engels.
Englisch.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.


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