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Vincenz, Stanisław
Prägende Kontakte mit der Volksgruppe der Huzulen in der Kindheit; Studium in Wien; 1914 Promotion in Philosophie; Offizier im Ersten Weltkrieg;...
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The Politics of Resistance in Brazil’s Dystopian Thriller 3%
The Netflix television series 3% explores controversial issues in Brazilian society. The principal theme of the first season is the idea of...
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You Are What You Eat: Bestiality and Other “Carnal Cravings” in the Works of H. G. Wells
This chapter explores the influence of Darwinism on the representation of vegetarianism in the foundational science fiction and utopian works of H....
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Introduction: Into the Wood
The novelette of “Mythago Wood” was published in 1981 and expanded into a novel in 1984. It is the only work to have received the British Science...
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Introduction
Shakespeare is fascinated by speed, and Shakespeare’s plays and poems explore, repeatedly, states of extreme speed and flight. This is...
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Continuity Regained: Village Life and Rediscovery
In January 1977, Pym was rediscovered when the Times Literary Supplement reported her as the only living author cited twice in a survey of...
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Junk Food and Prison Food: The Heart Goes Last
In The Heart Goes Last, food imagery and food metaphors are used to illustrate the genre switches: dystopian reality is illustrated by hunger,...
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Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to Be Born
Who decides whose lives are worth living? In Karawynn Long’s piece of science fiction, “Of Silence and Slow Time” (1995), the government determines...
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Dystopia
In addition to outlining the history of the word “dystopia” and the theoretical permutations of its meaning, this chapter traces the history of...
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Society, Being and Consciousness
This chapter explores Lindsay’s contentious study Marxism and Contemporary Science (1949) which elaborates a vision of society as a unity constituted...
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Das Netzwerk der Schwestern und Übersetzer
Ein geplanter Gedichtband1, fünf Jahre Konzentrationslager und Bixio Bossi2, ein Vertreter des rechten, antisozialistischen Flügels der freisinnigen...
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Bestselling Authors Since 1900
There were two types of bestselling authorsauthorstypes of bestselling in Britain during the twentieth century. There were those like Margaret...
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A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
We offer here an indicative selection of animal satires, which makes no claim to be comprehensive. The intention, rather, is to document the extent...
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George Meredith, (Psycho)Analyst
Through his study of writer George Meredith, Jack Lindsay identifies the ways that bourgeois ideology affects the formation and behaviour of...
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The Twentieth Century
Even as breathtaking developments in science and technology seemed to place utopian dreams within touching distance, the twentieth century often felt...
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Introduction: Brexit!
Eurosceptic dreams of an independent UK and nightmares of faceless EU bureaucrats are not confined to the world of politics, public opinion and the...
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Ellison, Harlan: Das Prosawerk
Das Werk des Autors umfasst viele hundert Kurzgeschichten, die er seit Mitte der 1950er Jahre vor allem im Umfeld der Science Fiction, aber auch in...
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Der Atem (1949)
Heinrich Mann hat an seinem Roman von der zweiten Hälfte des Jahres 1946 bis zum 25.10.1947 geschrieben; es war sein achtzehnter. Der Atem wurde zu...
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Vivisection in Modernist Culture and Popular Fiction, 1890–1945
This chapter will re-evaluate critical work on the importance of biology in the modernist period in the light of early twentieth-century vivisection...