Literary Criticism Comparative Literature
Histopias
From the Bible to Cloud Atlas
- Publisher
- Universitas Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2015
- Category
- Comparative Literature, Semiotics & Theory, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780993995156
- Publish Date
- Dec 2015
- List Price
- $23.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988963150
- Publish Date
- Mar 2019
- List Price
- $99.00
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Description
The present monograph looks closely at and identifies a new subgenre, histopias. A (late) postmodernist phenomenon, histopias are fictional retellings of the history of the world. They often use utopian/dystopian scenarios, which are necessary as “world-historical effect”: the end and/or rebirth of the world offer the possibility of narrating the fate of all mankind. Whether novelists or playwrights, histopian authors use a structural pattern that mirrors the way in which the world tells itself: both continuous and discontinuous, in turn linear, cyclical, or radial.
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Contributor Notes
Dragos Moraru has a PhD in Literary Studies. He is the co-editor of Dracula: The Postcolonial Edition.
