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02128aam a2200313 i 4500 001 7983D096E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220602010055 008 181212s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1441109633 020 $a 9781441109637 020 $a 1441195254 020 $a 9781441195258 035 $a (OCoLC)1085198552 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCL $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.U8 M58x 2020 100 1 $a Mitchell, Sebastian, $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Utopia and its discontents : $b Plato to Atwood / $c Sebastian Mitchell. 260 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Academic $c 2017. 300 $a 255 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a Utopia and its Discontents" traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate how they construct, challenge and explore the ideas and forms of earlier utopian writings and the social and political ideals of their own periods. The book explores how literary utopias are often as much about the past as they are about the present and the future. Utopia and Its Discontents covers such topics as: - Early political and philosophical writers, such as Aristotle and Thomas More - Literary works, from Voltaire's Candide to George Orwell's 1984 - Science fiction writers such as H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and Brian Aldiss - Ecological and feminist texts by Ursula Le Guin and Margaret Atwood - Utopian cinema, from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner With annotated chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading, this is an essential study for students and scholars of utopian literature. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Utopias in literature. 650 0 $a Dystopias in literature. 650 0 $a Literature $x History and criticism. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013909.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7983D096E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search