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  title info:
    title: Consuming utopia
    sub title: cultural studies and the politics of reading
  name:
    name part: Storey, John
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 117 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Consuming Utopia builds on critical insights into consumption and utopianism developed in two previous books by the author to elaborate what it means to read utopian fiction (including dystopian and anti-utopian) from the critical perspective of cultural studies. With a critical focus on social practices of reading rather than on the text itself, John Storey advances a timely and relevant contribution to existing debates on utopian fiction, offering new insights into how we might understand the politics of utopian fiction. Finding readership and readers indispensable to the act of producing politics beyond the text, Storey argues that if utopian fiction has a 'politics,' it is determined by those who, in actuality, pick up books and act on what they read, rather than readers proposed by textuality. By engaging with seminal concepts in cultural studies, this book shows how reading utopian fiction works to make the meaning of such texts material and social, and therefore available for politics. An essential addition to the literature on utopian fiction, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students in the areas of cultural studies, literary studies, comparative literature, cultural politics, utopian studies and political theory.
  table of contents: Culture and power -- The utopian contrast -- Dystopian and anti-utopian fiction -- Textual politics -- Habitualization, defamiliarization and utopian reading -- Reading and the education of discontent.
  note: John Storey.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-114) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Utopias in literature
  subject:
    topic: Dystopias in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: PN3448.U7 S76 2022
  classification: 809.3/9372
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    title info:
      title: Routledge research in cultural and media studies
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210430
    record change date: 20220321145406.9
    record identifier: in00004553400