Spectres of Utopia

Artur Blaim is Professor of English Literature, University of Gdańsk, author of books and articles on English utopian fiction, desert island narratives, and cultural semiotics, co-editor (with Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim) of Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema.Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim is Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk; author and co-editor of books on 20th century poetry and prose, literary theory, fictional worlds in literature and cinema.

• Contents: Lyman Tower Sargent: Theorizing Utopia / Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century – Gregory Claeys: The Five Languages of Utopia: Their Respective Advantages and Deficiencies; With a Plea for Prioritizing Social Realism – Tadeusz Sławek: Utopia of Apocalypse: Thinking Which Changes the World – José Eduardo Reis: The Biblical Code of Utopia – Antonis Balasopoulos: Varieties of Lacanian Anti-Utopianism – Jan Rohgalf: Notes on Utopia and Political Myth in the Narration of Alter-Globalization – Malcolm Miles: An Actually-existing Public Sphere? – Federico Cugurullo: Reconsidering Utopia and Dystopia: A Matter of Perception – Yaacov Oved: Anarchist Utopians and the Kibbutz Movement – Timothy Miller: Building an American Utopia: Greensburg Rises from the Rubble – Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: Heterotopia Eastern Europe: Warsaw and the Memory of / in the Ruins – Camilla Jalving: Utopia in the Eye of the (Art) Beholder – Teresa Botelho: Leaving One’s Safe Houses of Identity: Reimagining Belonging in Utopian Performatives – Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim: Spectres of Eutopia: (Re-)appropriated Spaces in Filmic Dystopias – Artur Blaim: Theses on Synecdoche and Utopia – Jadwiga Węgrodzka: Utopian Garden Cities in the Children’s Fiction of E. Nesbit – Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak: Utopianism in Radical Fantasy for Children and Young Adults – David Malcolm: Not As Easy As A.B.C. : Kipling’s Male Utopias – Anna Gilarek: Gender Separatism: Utopia Meets Dystopia in Feminist Speculative Fiction – Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk: A Liberal Dystopia? Ideology and Religion in Operation ‘Veil’ by Tomasz Terlikowski – Katarzyna Pisarska: After the End of All Things: Iain Banks’s A Song of Stone as a Postapocalyptic Dystopia – Andrew Milner: On the Beach and The Sea and Summer: Two Paradigmatic Australian Dystopias?