The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler

ISBN-13: 9781803740553 / Angielski

Raffaella Baccolini; Antonis Balasopoulos; Joachim Fischer

Opis

Building on the notion of 'critical utopia' and elaborating on interpretations of literary works as contradictory and incomplete, the book analyses selected utopian and dystopian novels by five writers: Edward Bellamy, Alexander Bogdanov, Ivan Yefremov, Marge Piercy and Octavia E. Butler.

O autorze

Pavla Veselá teaches in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Her research focuses on modern Anglophone and Slavic (Russian, Czech) literature and her publications include articles in the journals Utopian Studies, The Journal of William Morris Studies, AUC Philologica and Science Fiction Studies.