Beschreibung
Is utopian literature a dream of harmony and justice or a nightmare of a controlled world with no ambivalence or discretion? Engaging with a wide range of texts from different periods and national traditions, leading scholars rethink ‘the good place’ and suggest that utopia, in the realm of fiction, is more than just a philosophical abstraction.
Autorenportrait
Florian Mussgnug is Reader in Italian and Comparative Literature and director of the graduate programme in comparative literature at University College London.
Matthew Reza is an Italian language tutor at the University of Oxford and the events coordinator for the research network Italian Studies at Oxford.
Inhalt
Contents: Florian Mussgnug: Introduction: Utopian / World / Literature – Gillian Beer: ‘Our Natural Loneliness’: Solitude and Utopia – Laura Caretti: She Exits to Utopia – Matthew Beaumont: The Bourne Identity: On Utopian Psychopathology – Neil ten Kortenaar: Utopia, Village, Nation-State – Simona Corso: Pastoral, History and Utopia – Simona Micali: Alternate History: Travels to Elsewhen – Francesco Giusti: Nature as Definitive Utopia, or the End of the Subject – Gioachino Chiarini: Utopia
– Maria Di Battista: The Great Good Place – Julien Zanetta: Utopian Collections: Goncourt and Huysmans Against the Grain – Matthew Reza: Struggling Against Utopia: Defoe, Wells, Atwood – Giovanni de Leva: Vasco Pratolini’s Neighbourhood as Utopia – André Hansen: Strategy Games in Margaret Atwood’s
– Vita Fortunati: Afterword: Time for Meta-Utopia? Inhaltsverzeichnis
