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From Utopia to Apocalypse
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Peter Yoonsuk Paik
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-18 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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"I read Peter Y. Paik’s lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can re
From Utopia to Apocalypse
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Peter Yoonsuk Paik
Categories: Apocalypse in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences to reflect on the politics and societal ills of the day. Through ch
Future West
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: William Henry Katerberg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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What is the future of the American West? This book look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and f
Black Mass
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: John Gray
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-30 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning
Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Apocalypse
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: J. Verheul
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Virago Press

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The book explores the fundamental and multifaceted dialectic between utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares within American culture. The utopian mindset in con