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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael G. Kelly , Mariano PazPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 2023 ed. Weight: 0.601kg ISBN: 9783031258541ISBN 10: 3031258541 Pages: 345 Publication Date: 28 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Fair and Unfair Cities: Equity, Ideology, Utopia.- Part I Histories of the Future.- 2 The Dialectics of Revery: Daydreaming and the (Un)Fair City, 1794–1922.- 3 Utopia as Urban Testing Ground: Spatial and Social Forms in the Works of Ebenezer Howard and H.G. Wells.- 4 Utopia and Agoraphobia in 1920s Marseilles: Empty Space in the Work of László Moholy-Nagy and Siegfried Kracauer.- 5 Ideological Troubles in the Proletarian Paradise: The Four Cities of Werner Illing’s Utopolis (1930).- 6 Prince Charles’ A Vision of Britain as Populist Retrotopia.- Part II Reclaiming and Remaking.- 7 ‘Another World is Plantable’: Community Gardening and Urban Planning.- 8 Imaginaries of the Future City: Envisioning Climate Change and Technological Cityscapes through Dutch Contemporary Speculative Fiction.- 9 Both Kinds of Occupation: Reclaiming and Remaking the City in Contemporary Poetry.- 10 Navigating Beyond Gender: The City in Feminist Science Fiction.- 11 Pathways Towards Utterance in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Framing the Urban Real.- Part III Fictional Fieldwork.- 12 Aztecs and Angels in Mexico City: Urban Palimpsests and Social Critique in Fictions by Homero Aridjis and Edgar Clement.- 13 Utopianism and the Writing of Lisbon in José Saramago’s Historical Fiction.- 14 Unruly Utopia: Divergent Spatialities in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.- 15 Confronting Otherness: The Built Environments in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt.- 16 ‘City Which Holds All Times and Places’: On Urban Landscape in Maggie Gee’s The Flood.ReviewsAuthor InformationMichael G. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in French and head of subject at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he is also Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. He is the author of a study on the relations of utopia and modern French poetry, Strands of Utopia. Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France, and has published widely on a range of topics in modern and contemporary French and comparative literature. Mariano Paz is Lecturer in Spanish and head of subject at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he is Associate Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. He has published widely on the topic of dystopian and science fiction cinemas, with a focus on the representation of ideology and urban spaces in Latin American film. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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