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vii, 278 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Alternatives
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Alternatives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Atavism and Utopia / Eric S. Rabkin -- Coming race: Hell? or paradise foretasted? / B.G. Knepper -- "The mirror up to nature": reflections of Victorianism in Samuel Butler's Erewhon / Thomas J. Remington -- Zamiatin's We / Gorman Beauchamp -- Olaf Stapledon's Last and first men / Eugene Goodheart -- On Brave new world / William Matter -- Shape of things to come: H.G. Wells and the rhetoric od Proteus / Ken Davis -- Mixing behaviorism and Utopia: the transformations of Walden two / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Utopia reconsidered: comments on 1984 / William Steinhoff -- Kurt Vonnegut's Player piano: an ambiguous technological dystopia / Howard P. Segal -- Mass degradation of humanity and massive contradictions in Bradbury's vision of America in Fahrenheit 451 / Jack Zipes -- On aggression: William Golding's Lord of the flies / Kathleen Woodward -- Robert Silverberg's The world inside / Merritt Abrash -- Chronosophy, aesthetics, and ethics in Le Guin's The dispossessed: an ambiguous Utopia / James W. Bittner. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English. |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Literature and science -- English-speaking countries.
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Literature and science. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias in literature. |
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Dystopias in literature.
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Dystopias in literature. |
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Fictie. |
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Science fiction. |
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Utopieën. |
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Engels. |
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Science-fiction anglaise -- Histoire et critique. |
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Science-fiction américaine -- Histoire et critique. |
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Utopies dans la littérature. |
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Dystopies dans la littérature. |
| Added Author |
Rabkin, Eric S.
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Greenberg, Martin Harry.
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Olander, Joseph D.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: No place else. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1983 (OCoLC)609805593 |
| ISBN |
0809311135 |
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9780809311132 |
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