Utopia and the contemporary British novel
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Utopia and the contemporary British novel
(Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture)
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : hardback
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 239-253
Includes index
On USMARC: Summary: "This book explores the narrative treatment of time from a philosophical perspective. I will be concerned with how the experience of lived time, or temporality, functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Central to this book is the assertion that utopian expression not only persists within the twenty-first-century novel, but is shaping an emerging body of fictions whose shared interrogation of lived and historical time reveals a series of radically nonlinear, disjunct, pluralised and alternative temporal constructions. The writers I have selected for inclusion within this study represent a renaissance of British literary talent in the contemporary period that cuts across different generations."--Provided by publisher
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: daily into the blue
- 2. Reading fictions of the not yet
- 3. Death: moments of possibility
- 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times
- 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures
- 6. Epilogue: world as home.
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