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Between dream and nature : essays on Utopia and Dystopia
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The article was published on 1987-01-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dystopia & Utopia.read more
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The Ideal City
TL;DR: The city is a spatial translation of the rights that govern the collective and the individual as discussed by the authors. But is it truly random? Isn't it actually the result of strong local, historical and technological constraints?
Dissertation
Encountering the foreign : the educative effect of the foreign in George Eliot's novels of English life
TL;DR: The authors investigates the ways in which the encounter of the self with the other enlarges both individual characters and English life in George Eliot's fiction, and concludes by appreciating the complexity of identity, and the broader horizons achieved by the encounter with the foreign in English life.
Technology of Power in Philip K. Dick’s Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?
Sara Mirmobin,Ensieh Shabanirad +1 more
TL;DR: A sociological study of Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep? based on Michel Foucault's concepts as well as Jean Baudrillard, and Thomas Mathiesen's theories about power and its techniques is presented in this article.
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Women marginalization and political corruption in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the function of dystopia in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) and focused on the issues of women marginalization and political corruption by approaching the dystopia qualities in the novel.
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The inventions of paradise: the Caribbean and the Utopian Bent
TL;DR: In the con/texts that this essay takes as circum-Caribbean, there is a complex tradition to the myth-making, myth-mocking appeal of the utopian bent.