Envisioning American Utopias : Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3631575130
ISBN-13
9783631575130
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 15th, 2011
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
312 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Film: styles & genresLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Envisioning American Utopias
The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and television. The articles address topics of ecology, urbanism, politics, society, and heroism. Specifically, the volume addresses texts by Paul Auster, Ernest Callenbach, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Shepard, Alexis de Toqueville, James Welch, and Nathanael West, and television series like 24, and the Star Trek and Stargate franchises, as well as video games. Contributors include Sandra Beyer, Rasmus Damkjær Christensen, Antje Dallmann, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Martin Dalgaard Grøn, Reinhard Isensee, Berenike Jung, Philipp Kneis, Daniela Simon, Katarzyna Sobieraj, Renate Ulbrich, and Thomas Wagenknecht.
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