Tenses of imagination
Subtitle: Raymond Williams on science fiction, utopia and dystopia
By: Andrew Milner.
Contributors: Milner, Andrew.
Series: Ralahine utopian studies -- 7
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9783039118267
Subjects: Science fiction, English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Dystopias in literature; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Space anthropology, utopia, and putropia: left culturalism; title: Science fiction; title: William Morris; title: George Orwell; title: The future story as social formula novel; title: Terror; title: Texts in their contexts: cultural materialism; title: Nineteen eighty-four; title: The city and the future; title: On Orwell: an interview; title: On Morris: an interview; title: Learning from Le Guin: (anti-) postmodernism; title: Utopia and science fiction; title: The tenses of imagination; title: Beyond actually existing socialism; title: Resources for a journey of hope; title: Nineteen eighty-four in 1984; title: The future novels; title: From the volunteers; title: From the fight for Manod.