Nowhere somewhere : writing, space and the construction of utopia / Ed. Jose Eduardo Reis and Jorge Bastos da Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reis, José Eduardo.

da Silva, Bastos.

Series:

Perspective series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias.

Utopias in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Porto, Portugal : Routledge, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; PART I - Lands Beyond the Sea / The Other Beyond the Sea: Ancient to Early Modern Utopianism; The Fruit of the Planted Oar: Utopia in the Odyssey; A Cannibal Utopia: On Montaigne's Essays; The Sea,"that Great Utopian Substance": For an Ideal-Maritime History in Portuguese Literature; Shipwreck and Utopia in Colonial Spanish America; PART II - Utopian Inclusions and Exclusions: The Ages of (Un)Reason; Spanish Literary Utopias: Omnibona and The Desired Government; Aux Marches du Palais: L'emblème d'une Académie portugaise du XVIIe siècle; Utopianism in The Scarlet Letter

Madness and Utopia in John Ruskin's Thought Do the Right Thing? Knowledge and Agency in Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas"; PART III - Technological Utopianisms: The Present and the Future; The Ubermensch in the Laboratory: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Communing with Relationships: A Look at the Influence of Nineteenth Century Communes on Utopian Space Travel and Stations; PART IV - Contemporary Spaces: Performing / Discussing Utopia; "We Have Suddenly Become Severe": Ernst Bloch as a Critic of Modern Architecture

Utopian Modernism in the Land of the Future: Brasília, the "Capital of Hope"Redesigning Utopia for the Twenty-First Century? Reflections on Current Projects of Urban Regeneration in the United Kingdom; Constructing, Performimg and Unsettling Utopia: Geographies of Built Space at the Hundertwasser-Haus, Vienna; The Imaginary Space of Wishful Other: Thomas Hirschhorn's Cardboard Utopias; Spatialising Resistance - Resisting Spaces: On Utopias and Heterotopias; Antinomy Perfected: Everyday Life Utopia in Situationist Politics of Space; Utopie / Terre / Sôma

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

989-8265-05-1

OCLC:

905460709