Eric S. Rabkin,Joseph D. Olander,Martin H. Greenberg,B.G. Knepper,Thomas J. Remington,Gorman Beauchamp,Eugene Goodheart,William W. Matter
Writers have created fictions of social perÂ­fection at least since Plato's ,Republic., Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intelÂ­lectual history a name when he called his contribution to it ,Utopia,, Greek for ,no place,.,With each subsequent author cogÂ­nizant of his predecessors and subject to altered real-world conditions which sugÂ­gest ever-new causes for hope and alarm, "no place" changed. The fourteen essays presented in this book critically assess man's fascination with and seeking for "no place.","In discussing these central fictions, the contributors see 'no place' from diÂ­verse perspectives: the sociological, the psychological, the political, the aesthetic. In revealing the roots of these works, the contributors cast back along the whole length of utopian thought. Each essay stands alone; together, the essays make clear what â€˜no placeâ€™ means today. While it may be true that â€˜no placeâ€™ has always seemed elsewhere or elsewhen, in fact all utopian fiction whirls contemporary acÂ­tors through a costume dance no place else but here." â€”from the Preface,Â ,The contributors are Eric S. Rabkin, B. G. Knepper, Thomas J., ,Remington, Gorman Beauchamp, William Matter, Ken Davis, Kenneth M. Roemer, WilÂ­liam Steinhoff, Howard Segal, Jack Zipes, Kathleen Woodward, Merritt Abrash, and James W. Bittner.
Nonfiction,Academic,Science Fiction,Utopia,Criticism,Literary Criticism
No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction