“Dead beyond any hope of resurrection?”:Iain M. Banks’ gravitas-defying narratives as a response to the 20th century literary utopian decline
Utopian literature has been around for half a millennium, officially beginning with Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516). As a genre, it has survived several lulls in popularity, always to return with a new generation of authors imagining ideal societies. However, the current hiatus in the genre that sta...
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University of Oulu
2016
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| Online Access: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201609232821 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:fi:oulu-201609232821 |