01470nam a2200145   4500008004100000020003000041245010100071210006900172260005000241520083600291100001901127700002001146700002201166856013601188       2011                        eng d  a9783631575130  363157513000aEnvisioning American utopias : fictions of science and politics in literature and visual culture0 aEnvisioning American utopias fictions of science and politics in  aFrankfurt am Main; New YorkbPeter Langc20113 a<p>"The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and television. The articles address topics of ecology, urbanism, politics, society, and heroism. Specifically, the volume addresses texts by Paul Auster, Ernest Callenbach, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Shepard, Alexis de Toqueville, James Welch, and Nathanael West, and television series like 24, and the Star Trek and Stargate franchises, as well as video games. Contributors include Sandra Beyer, Rasmus Damkjær Christensen, Antje Dallmann, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Martin Dalgaard Grøn, Reinhard Isensee, Berenike Jung, Philipp Kneis, Daniela Simon, Katarzyna Sobieraj, Renate Ulbrich, and Thomas Wagenknecht"--Publisher.</p>1 aKneis, Philipp1 aDallmann, Antje1 aIsensee, Reinhard  uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/envisioning-american-utopias-fictions-science-and-politics-literature-and-visual-culture