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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"utopian projects"”.
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Utopian Times: The Quest for the Perfect Society in Renaissance Italy and in the New World
… in the New World, where More's and Campanella's utopian projects were realized. A semantic and textual analysis of utopian writings is presented in the last part of this study (Chapter 4). The Conclusion summarizes the study and discusses some utopian developments in the twentieth century. The …
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Utopian Hope vs. Merely-Political Combat: Directionality for the Kingdom of God
… work inside the 'academy' to diverse accounts of utopian and/or dystopian imaginaries within diverse fictional stories. Identifying what utopia picks out conceptually, however, is challenging, not least due to the limitations inherent in the ways we perceive the world could be. In this …
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The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru
… of hope by interrogating previously cherished utopian projects. Rather than deifying or demonizing Prime Minister Nehru’s legacy, “The Decades of Disillusionment” recovers a more organic sense of how middle-class India began to lose faith in his dreams.
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… the science fictional, the Gothic, and the utopian. The following chapter resituates the previously instrumentalized Norah Joyce as the central figure of Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass (1890), bringing new complexity to portrayals and performances of gender in Stoker’s novel. My third …
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Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial
… after disaster and the way the rhetoric of utopian projects is taken up by corporate and privatizing ventures to mask projects that seek to shut down participation in the public sphere. Chapter one argues that there are mechanisms within societies that can push against these forces by …
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Casa Samba: Identity, Authenticity, and Tourism in New Orleans
… reason, this research examines Casa Samba as a utopian project, a site of cultural belonging, and an Afrocentric venture. I propose that Curtis and Carol Pierre have drawn on their knowledge of what is valuable, meaningful, and important—that is, authentic—to produce a cultural organization that …