Strange Vistas
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Strange Vistas

Perspectives on the Utopian

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Strange Vistas

Perspectives on the Utopian

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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 19 th - and early 20 th -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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Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2019
ISBN
9783631795309
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright information
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Translation in Utopia and Utopia in Translation: The Case of Translating as a Utopian Practice
  6. “O Music, Sweet Music”—Practising Utopia in the Jazz Improvization of Wayne Krantz
  7. The Iranian Heritage of Utopianism: Niẓami Ganjaviʼs Utopian Thoughts
  8. Towards a Stateless Syndicalist Society: Strike, Solidarity, and Struggle in Émile Pataud and Émile Pouget’s Utopia How We Shall Bring about the Revolution
  9. Conrad, Ideology and Utopia
  10. The Contiguity of Utopia and Dystopia in Monteiro Lobato’s The Racial Shock
  11. “You Know Nothing of Tomasz”: Polish Immigrant as the Cultural Other in More Than This
  12. “Man is Good at that Sort of Thing in General: At Substituting Illusion for Reality”: Simulations in Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro Trilogy
  13. Seeking Solidarity: The Influence of the American Haymarket Affair on Unionization in America and Europe
  14. Towards a Communicative Logic: U-Topos as Element
  15. Mapping the Mindspace of Retopia: On Political Imagination
  16. Coda: The Space to Dream Again: Utopian Prospectsin the Age of Trump
  17. Notes on Contributors