Utopian Visions and Revisions

Artur Blaim is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He is the author of «Gazing in Useless Wonder. English Utopian Fiction 1516–1800» (2013) and «Robinson Crusoe and His Doubles» (2016). He has co-edited several volumes on utopian/dystopian fiction and cinema like «Spectres of Utopia. Theory, Practice, Conventions» (2012) and «Mediated Utopias» (2015). His main research interests include utopia/dystopia in literature, film and other media, William Shakespeare, cultural semiotics, and desert island narratives.

• Utopian fiction – Utopianism – Literary utopias and dystopias – Filmic utopias and dystopias – Anti-utopia – Rock lyrics – Jewish characters in literature – Scientific motifs in literature – "Utopia" – "New Atlantis" – "Gulliver’s Travels" – Thomas More – Francis Bacon – William Shakespeare – George Orwell – William Golding – Tadeusz Konwicki