More After More. Essays Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia

430 Pages·2017·6.32 MB·English

by  Ksenia Olkusz

More
A�er More
Essays Commemorating
the Five-Hundredth
Anniversary of
Thomas More’s
Utopia
edited by
ksenia olkusz
michał kłosiński
krzysztof m. maj
FRONTIERS of NOWHERE

More
After More

More
After More
Essays Commemorating
the Five-Hundredth Anniversary
of Thomas More’s Utopia
edited by

Ksenia Olkusz,
Michał Kłosiński
Krzysztof M. Maj
facta ficta research centre • kraków 2016
Some rights reserved by
Facta Ficta Research Centre in Kraków

The book is licenced under Creative Commons BY 4.0
(Attribution International) in recognition of Open Access
Movement and stored in the Center for Open Science repository

Reviewed by Prof. Paweł Frelik

Proofread by Sven Dwulecki and Karolina Kwaśna

Cataloguing: 1. Philosophy 2. Utopian studies 3. Utopia and dystopia
I. Frontiers of Nowhere (vol. 1) II. Title
III. Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, Krzysztof M. Maj
ISBN: 978-83-942923-4-8

Cover photo: Nikos Patsiouris, Syros Island
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/patsnik/16936623591)

Set in Libre Baskerville and Cinzel open fonts
Layout designed by Krzysztof M. Maj
Contents
List of Figures 10
Preface 12
Introduction: Utopia at 500 14
Gregory Claeys
1. Evantropia and Dysantropia: A Possible New Stage
in the History of Utopias 26
Lucas Misseri
2. The Facets of “Universal Religion”: Religion in Nineteenth-Century
French Utopian Thought 44
Tomasz Szymański
3. Twenty-first Century Critical Dystopias 56
Peter G. Stillman
4. Deconstructing Utopia 74
Krzysztof M. Maj
5. Micro-dystopias as Socio-political Constructs
in Post-apocalyptic Narratives 90
Ksenia Olkusz
6. Boredom and Melancholy in Utopias and Dystopias 104
Mariusz Finkielsztein
7. Creating Utopian or Dystopian Worlds in Digital Games 118
Miłosz Markocki
8. SimCity: Where the City Ends 134
Michał Kłosiński
9. “Building the Future and Keeping the Past Alive Are One and
the Same Thing”—A Rhetorical Analysis of the Metal Gear Solid Saga 148
Sven Dwulecki
10. Digging the Trench: Fictional Accounts of Utopian Communities
and Utopian Closure 172
Verena Adamik
11. Classical Utopian Model. On the Melancholy Status
of Jan Parandowski’s Ancient Discourse 188
Rafał Szczerbakiewicz
12. Parodies of Authority in the Soviet Anti-utopias from 1918-1930 210
Andrzej Dróżdż
13. The Analysis of the Element of Space in Negative Utopias
by Antoni Lange, Jan Dobraczyński & Vladímir Páral 224
Aleksandra Paluch
14. Libertarian Utopia and Racist Dystopia: Social Commentary
in Robert Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold 238
Piotr Stasiewicz
15. No Light Without Shadow: The Control of Language and Discourse
in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction 252
Anna De Vaul
16. Senescence in Young Adult Dystopias 266
Anna Bugajska
17. Modern Wastelands: The Psychogeographical Dystopia
of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise 280
Marcin Tereszewski
18. The Use of Multimodal Narrative Techniques in Creating Dystopian
Undertones Permeating David Foster Wallace’s Short Fiction 294
Maja Wojdyło
19. A Utopian, a Martyr or a Fool: Fictional Portrayals
of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons and Wolf Hall 310
Barbara Klonowska
20. The Pelagian Roots of Utopia—The Problem of Good and Evil
in the Novels Pronalazak Athanatika by Vladan Desnica
and Koraljna vrata by Pavao Pavličić 322
Anna Boguska
21. The Elementary Particles: Brave New World According to
Michel Houellebecq 338
Michał Palmowski
22. The Unusual Dystopia of Never Let Me Go (2010) 352
Eleni Varmazi
23. Transmetropolitan. Dystopia, Hyperbole, and the Superhero 364
Justyna Galant
24. Liberation, Redemption, Autonomy: Contemporary Utopias
in Southern Italian Popular Music 376
Marcello Messina
25. Arnold Schoenberg’s Dodecaphonic Method as a Representation
of an Artistic Utopia 394
Iwona Sowińska-Fruhtrunk
26. Space Utopia in the 1970s of the Twentieth Century
on the Basis of the Kobaïan World 406
Łukasz Stec
Contributors 420