Demand the Impossible : Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Peter Lang AG,
2014.
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| Series: | Ralahine utopian studies ;
volume 14. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction to the Classics Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Critical Utopia; Part One: Theory; Chapter 2: The Utopian Imagination; Chapter 3: The Literary Utopia; Part Two: Texts; Chapter 4: Joanna Russ, ""The Female Man""; Chapter 5: Ursula K. Le Guin, ""The Dispossessed""; Chapter 6: Marge Piercy, ""Woman on the Edge of Time""; Chapter 7: Samuel R. Delany, ""Triton""; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Additional Material (2014); Chapter 9: "And we are here as on a darkling plain": Reconsidering Utopia in Huxley's ""Island""
- Chapter I0: Reflections on ""Demand the Impossible""(Raffaella Baccolini) Introduction; (Lucy Sargisson) A Breath of Fresh Air; (Peter Fitting) ""Demand the Impossible"" and the Imagination of a Utopian Alternative; (Andrew Milner) Tom Moylan's ""Demand the Impossible""; (Lyman Tower Sargent) Miscellaneous Reflections on the "Critical Utopia"; (Kathi Weeks) Timely and Untimely Utopianism; (Gib Prettyman) Extrapolating the Critical Utopia; (Ruth Levitas) We Argue How Else?; (Antonis Balasopoulos) The Negation of Negation: On ""Demand the Impossible"" and the Question of Critical Utopia.
- (Ildney Cavalcanti) Very Inspiring
- and Still Highly in Demand(Phillip E. Wegner) Musings from a Veteran of the Culture Wars; or, Hope Today; (Raffaella Baccolini) Preserving the Dream; (Tom Moylan) A Closing Comment (For Now At Least); Notes to the First Edition; Bibliography of the First Edition; Index.