Yesterday's tomorrow : on Utopia and Dystopia / edited by Pere Gallardo and Elizabeth Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallardo, Pere, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias--History.

Utopias.

Dystopias--History.

Dystopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2012 was a year of financial crises and ecological disasters, of endings and forebodings. The world did not end on December 21st as the Mayan calendar predicted, but became the stage for new beginnings, utopian communities, protest groups and solidarity movements. The essays in this book form an intertextual space for negotiating meaningful facts and fictions with an aim to understanding the present. Discussions focus on utopia and dystopia from literature and film, not only within the fram...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; PART II; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; CHAPTER IX; CHAPTER X; CHAPTER XI; PART III; CHAPTER XII; CHAPTER XIII; CHAPTER XIV; CHAPTER XV; CHAPTER XVI; CHAPTER XVII; CHAPTER XVIII; PART IV; CHAPTER XIX; CHAPTER XX; CHAPTER XXI; CHAPTER XXII; CHAPTER XXIII; CHAPTER XXIV; PART V; CHAPTER XXV; CHAPTER XXVI; CHAPTER XXVII; CHAPTER XXVIII; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5877-3

OCLC:

875637555