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Author : Gary Indiana
Release : 2008-11-11
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 48X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Utopia's Debris by : Gary Indiana
Download or read book Utopia's Debris written by Gary Indiana. This book was released on 2008-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very finest from the scabrous, satirical, and always sublime Gary Indiana.
Author : Gary Indiana
Release : 2008-11-11
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Utopia's Debris by : Gary Indiana
Download or read book Utopia's Debris written by Gary Indiana. This book was released on 2008-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Indiana is one of America's leading cultural critics -- a public intellectual who has written key essays on every aspect of American culture. Utopia's Debris comprises selections of his very best work, revealing him to be an enormously acute, frequently scabrous, and always brilliant observer of the best and worst America has to offer. His writings range from popular culture -- trash novels, architectural wonders and horrors -- to appreciations of the best of modern literature, art, and cinema. They include his convincing (and highly entertaining) debunking of fashionable conspiracy theories, a spirited and contrarian defense of Bill Clinton's autobiography, a Mencken-like examination of the rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the politics of celebrity in what Indiana calls the Age of Contempt. A postmodern Emerson, Indiana wields scalpel-sharp wit and a fealty to logic on issues in which, all too often, irrationalism and emotionalism hold sway. At times rigorously serious, at other times whimsical, Indiana's most conspicuous feature is skepticism -- his wildly satirical contempt for conventional wisdom.
Author : Erik Schubach
Release : 2022-08-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Worldship Files: Utopia by : Erik Schubach
Download or read book Worldship Files: Utopia written by Erik Schubach. This book was released on 2022-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later. With the new industries created by opening up the new moon orbiting the Worldship Leviathan, her new asteroid heart, Morrigan, moved into place, a land-grab has begun now that there will be a large surplus of resources. An ambitious project to create a Fae style nature resort on the Cityship Yammato has run into problems as their workers have started vanishing without a trace. As it is the project of a Greater Fae Lord, the investigation falls under the purview of the commander of the FABLE office, Knith Shade. Knith and her companions quickly find themselves in over their heads when they discover an ancient evil of all consuming hunger has awoken on the Cityship, and Knith must face an undying enemy who cannot be stopped.
Author : Fernando Arenas
Release : 2003
Genre : Brazil
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 363/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Utopias of Otherness by : Fernando Arenas
Download or read book Utopias of Otherness written by Fernando Arenas. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forges a new understanding of how these two Lusophone nations are connected. The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments--past and present--in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portugal are subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including Jose Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergilio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol. Ultimately, Utopias of Otherness shows how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood, not only through their investment in utopian or emancipatory causes such as Marxist revolution, women's liberation, or sexual revolution but also by shifting their attention to alternative modes of conceiving the ethical and political realms.
Author : Marc Delrez
Release : 2021-10-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 275/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Manifold Utopia by : Marc Delrez
Download or read book Manifold Utopia written by Marc Delrez. This book was released on 2021-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Janet Frame's fiction addresses with unusual directness the Utopian momentum that underpins her concern with fundamental social issues, traditionally highlighted in existing criticism of her work. The idea behind this book is that Frame's critique of society, while it is offered for its own sake on one level, should not lead us to neglect the author's more speculative interest in an alternative conception of the human person. Her engagement in a species of experimental portraiture proves elusive, though, owing to an indirectness of approach that usually takes the form of thematic circumscription, rather than explicit representation. For example, the figure of the mute child, recurrent in her work, may well testify to a concern with the plight of the mentally ill; but on another level it also points to an envelope of intractable experience which it is the artist’s task to penetrate and explain. Such aspiration is inseparable from the search for a new medium of expression, felt to be necessary if one is to meet the challenge of apprehending the scope of pioneering knowledge. This close reading of the novels reveals that the alternative dimension of experience to be found in Frame’s novels is characterized by an intact capacity for remembering, or for imaginatively re-creating, eclipsed aspects of the present. Frame's view of Utopia thus turns out to be manifold: it is existential and ontological, linguistic and epistemological, but also historical and political. An unravelling of these intertwined strains then serves to clarify the complex question of Frame's post-colonial sensibility, which cannot be said to rely on a sense of rigid identity, whether national or otherwise.
