Gazing in Useless Wonder

Artur Blaim

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 13
• Gazing in Useless Wonder analyses the genre pattern of utopian fiction as it emerged in the Renaissance, focusing on utopias as self-referential texts... Lees meer

Utopian Encounters

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 20
• This volume is an experiment: an enquiry into the possibilities and potentialities of a prospective anthropology of utopia. With different ethnographi... Lees meer

Exploring the Utopian Impulse

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 2
• Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature an... Lees meer

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction

Darko Suvin

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 18
• Back in print for the first time since the 1980s, this book is a touchstone for literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genr... Lees meer

The Rebirth of Utopia in 21st-Century Cinema

Monica Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 27
• Thinking across the boundaries of utopian studies, film studies, and the sociology of globalisation, this book argues that 21st-century cinema illustr... Lees meer

Demand the Impossible

Tom Moylan

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 14
• Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1960s and 1970s. The Ralahine Classics edition of this groundb... Lees meer

Postcategorical Utopia; James Baldwin and the Political Unconscious of Imagined Futures

Pekka Kilpelainen

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 29
• «Kilpeläinen's engaging journey through Baldwin's postcategorical utopian thought shows how this writer's under-appreciated later works foresee today'... Lees meer

The Spectre of Utopia

Matthew Beaumont

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 12
• In the late nineteenth century, a spectre haunted Europe and the United States: the spectre of utopia. This book re-examines the rise of utopian thoug... Lees meer

Utopianism and Marxism

Vincent Geoghegan

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 4
• This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting on the work twenty... Lees meer

Transgressive Utopianism

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 22
• .This volume honors Lucy Sargisson's contribution to the field of utopian studies. Lees meer

Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism

Lyman Tower Sargent

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 26
• The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theo... Lees meer

Partial Visions

Angelika Bammer

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 16
• The imaginative literature that emerged out of American, French and German feminisms of the 1970s countered the idea of utopia as a pre-set goal with ... Lees meer

Shockwaves of Possibility

Phillip E Wegner

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 15
• Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends ... Lees meer

Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics

Darko Suvin

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 1004
• This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin's critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years... Lees meer

The Racial Horizon of Utopia

Edward K. Chan

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 17
• This book surveys reimaginings of race by US American utopian novelists including Dorothy Bryant, Marge Piercy, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler and Kim ... Lees meer

Weak Messianism

Michael Gardiner

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 11
• This book is a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown in... Lees meer

The Shape of Utopia

Phillip E Wegner

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 10
• Upon its original publication in 1970, Robert C. Elliott's The Shape of Utopia influenced both some of the major scholars of an emerging utopian and s... Lees meer

Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics

Darko Suvin

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 1003
• This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin's critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years... Lees meer

Tenses of Imagination

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 7
• Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, the British Sa... Lees meer

Children's Voices in Politics

Michael S. Cummings

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 19
• Is the official political silencing of children in a democracy rational and just, or is it arbitrary and capricious? How might democratic polities ben... Lees meer

Zone Theory

Alexander Popov

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 28
• Zone Theory develops an approach to the study of utopia that expands its definition and its application in the field of science fiction studies Lees meer

The Politics of Utopia; A Study in Theory and Practice

Barbara Goodwin, Keith Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 5
• This book provides both an introduction to utopianism and a general perspective on radical political thought. Vigorously disputing the widespread conv... Lees meer

Imagining and Making the World; Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 8
• Although the association between architecture and utopia (the relationship between imagining a new world and exploring how its new conditions can best... Lees meer

Where Community Happens

Henry Near

• Paperback | Engels | Ralahine Utopian Studies | nr. 9
• In reaction to the spread of globalization, recent years have seen considerable growth in the number of intentional communities established across the... Lees meer