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Tenses of imagination : Raymond Williams on science fiction, utopia and dystopia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Raymond
Other Authors: Milner, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bern, Switzerland ; New York : Peter Lang, [2010]
Series:Ralahine utopian studies ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Science fiction, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Dystopias in literature.
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Space anthropology, utopia, and putropia: left culturalism
  • Science fiction
  • William Morris
  • George Orwell
  • The future story as social formula novel
  • Terror
  • Texts in their contexts: cultural materialism
  • Nineteen eighty-four
  • The city and the future
  • On Orwell: an interview
  • On Morris: an interview
  • Learning from Le Guin: (anti-) postmodernism
  • Utopia and science fiction
  • The tenses of imagination
  • Beyond actually existing socialism
  • Resources for a journey of hope
  • Nineteen eighty-four in 1984
  • The future novels
  • From The volunteers
  • From The fight for Manod.