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	Utopia (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other significant innovations of Utopia include: a welfare state with free hospitals, euthanasia encouraged by the state, priests being allowed to marry, divorce permitted, pre-marital sex punished by a lifetime of enforced celibacy and adultery being punished by enslavement.
		Utopia is often seen as a satire and there are many jokes and satirical asides such as how honest people are in Europe but these are usually contrasted with the simple, uncomplicated society of the Utopians.
		Utopia was begun while More was an envoy in Flanders in May 1515.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utopia_(Novel) (2399 words)

	Utopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although some authors have described their utopias in detail, and with an effort to show a level of practicality, the term "utopia" has come to be applied to notions that are (supposedly) too optimistic and idealistic for practical application.
		Utopia also reflects More's commitment to Christianity, as the people are united by belief in a Supreme Being, a priest administers the island's religious affairs, and belief in what is essentially the Christian Afterlife is mandatory.
		Utopia and Utopianism is an academic journal specializing in the subjects of utopia and utopianism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utopia (4778 words)

	Hexapedia - Utopia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The utopia may be usefully contrasted with the undesirable dystopia (anti-utopia) and the satirical utopia.
		Utopia is a republic where all property is held in common.
		Religious utopias, perhaps expansively described as a garden of delights, existence free of worry amid streets paved with gold, in a bliss of enlightenment enjoying nearly godlike powers, are often a reason for perceiving benefit in remaining faithful to a religion, and an incentive for converting new members.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Utopia_(Novel) (1514 words)

	Utopian themes Monika Maron’s novel Animal Triste
		The terms “utopia” and “utopian”’ will be understood as a state of mind, as static and not evolving, as something the narrator clings to as long as she can endure it.
		The imagined utopia, in this case her lover’s moving in into her apartment, the joining of their everyday lives, bursts like a bubble when the present, i.e., the end of the relationship, is narrated: the protagonist kills her lover by pushing him under an oncoming bus (AT 232, 237).
		In the novel, the readers are left wondering though, whether the protagonist did actually kill him or not, because she herself immediately voices doubts as to whether she actually did push him under the bus or not (AT 238).
	www.lsus.edu /la/journals/ideology/contents/animaltristeutopia.htm (6652 words)

	Utopia - written by Lincoln Child; Reviewed by Stuart Brown
		Listening to Lincoln Child's thrill-ride-of-a-novel, "Utopia," I flashbacked to the 1973 movie, "Westworld," as well as the current suspense gripped television program, "24." "Westworld" portrays a futuristic amusement park populated by humanistic robots whose soul purpose is to heighten a guest's experience at one of the theme-oriented locales.
		The convergence of the two men sets the stage for the novel as the listener slowly becomes enmeshed in the heart pounding action to save the park and its guests from a cataclysmic ending.
		But, like the background of Utopia's systems chief, Fred Barksdale, Brick became an acquired taste after the second of the thirteen cassette tapes and I was ready to be strapped in for hours of thrilling excitement.
	www.studentaffairs.com /ejournal/Spring_2003/bookreview-utopia.html (504 words)

	Fabi/Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel. Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And because the utopian novel was popular at the turn of the century, it is also hard to believe that African American authors would not have engaged with this genre, notably because it had become an important playground for the racialist, eugenicist, and segregationist discourse of white writers.
		And because "the utopia is designed to describe a unified society, not individual varieties of existence" (Frye 122), the detailed description of utopian life tends to deflect the author's attention from the rounded portrayal of his or her characters.
		The novel is structured around the protagonist's time travel, by his dialogues with his utopian hosts, and by his characteristically lengthy digressions on the differences between the utopian present and the preutopian past, especially with regard to the status of African Americans.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/fabi/ch2.html (11763 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Utopia
		Utopia means "no place" but sounds like "good place." At the very least, Utopia exposes the absurdities and evils of More's society by depicting an alternative.
		Sustaining the arguments of The Republic, Utopia fashions a society whose rulers are scholars (not unlike Plato's philosopher-king).
		Utopia's criticisms of the nobility's perversion of law to subjugate the poor were applied to the suffering of industrial and factory workers.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/utopia/about.html (1011 words)

	Utopia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Utopia is a philosophical concept coined after Sir Thomas More's novel De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia.
		Utopia by Lincoln Child, a thriller/action novel set in a futuristic theme park
		Utopia (Asian LGBT website) [1], a popular webportal based in Bangkok, Thailand, providing extensive information on LGBT culture in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utopia_(disambiguation) (194 words)

	Feminist Literary Utopias
		Set in a republican England of the future, the novel traces the attempts of Lionel Verney (whom critics say is modeled after the author) to establish utopia on earth, and it describes his successes until plague takes over the world.
		In Shelley's novel, women are largely in subservient roles; and, although the central character is patterned after the author, the character is portrayed as male.
		Towards the novels end, heterosexual love is rediscovered, and the resulting children further the society's recovery through the superior characteristics of these new members.
	home.fuse.net /dabogens/utopia.html (3347 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Utopia Study Guide
		The poem describes Utopia as a eutopia and compares it to "Plato's state." In one sense, Utopia is also a response to Plato's work, The Republic.
		We cannot travel to Utopia because it does not exist and furthermore, it is far away and the passage is dangerous.
		Utopia borrows the idea of the New World, but More does not argue that Utopia is actually a location somewhere in the actual New World.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/utopia/section3.html (1085 words)

	Utopian Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Utopia is a "pagan and communist city-state in which the institutions and policies were entirely governed by reason" ("Utopia" 1).
		The word "utopia" is a pun on two Greek words: eutopia, the good place, and outopia, no place (Mumford 267).
		Utopia could exist: it was expounded as a legitimate hope for the average citizen and it was embodied in more than a hundred experimental communities across the country" (Lockwood 183).
	www.louisville.edu /~adwats01/utopianintro.html (806 words)

	History and Utopia -- Chapter One
		Late in the novel Cooper states that a particular scene recalls "Cole's series of noble landscapes that is called 'the March of Empire.' "8 Cooper's memory was imperfect; the actual title is The Course of Empire, painted by Thomas Cole in 1836.
		Still the novel does express Cooper's conviction that land ownership is a sacred institution, that the law is sacred, that the social hierarchy is sacred, that the traditional high church is sacred, and that the devaluation of the sacred inevitably leads to the degeneration of civilization.
		It is a sacrosanct feature of proximate utopia, and its subversion is tantamount to "revolution" against "fundamental law."99 Disrespect for the sacred is endemic to a declining society, as "moral associations" between social institutions and human virtue lose vitality.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/writings/utopia/chapone.html (12410 words)

	Irving Howe: "1984" - Utopia Reversed (November 1950)
		Usually the utopian novel, such as Bellamy’s Looking Backward, is unbearably dull because its benign vision of the future is fatally marred by its author’s limitations of sensibility: his utopia reflects the damage class society has done to him.
		But in Orwell’s case, where he is writing an inversion of the utopia novel, a portrait of what one critic has called the unfuture, there is no such problem: if too often we envisage the good society as a surfeited bore, we have plenty of training in imagining its opposite.
		Novels are produced by machines, a considerable improvement over the Russian “collective novel” of two decades ago.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/howe/1950/11/1984.htm (3756 words)

	Utopia
		More and Bacon had two very different Utopias, but they had this in common: that the two Utopias were consciously placed beyond the realities of the world at their times, beyond what was known.
		Owen was one of the few who realised his Utopia: through reforming efforts and a background as an industrial magnate, and the movement that rose with him, he established 12 large scale experiments, mainly in the USA.
		The modern utopias of society have in different ways experimented with new models of a society where the relationship between individuality and community is reconsidered.
	www.gotzespace.dk /phd/utopia.html (3126 words)

	UTOPIA
		Utopia is the world's greatest theme park, located in the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas.
		Robotics, holograms, and other technological wonders are used to increase the realism of the worlds and to make the rides and other attractions the most exciting and believable of any theme park in the world.
		There was the historical research involved in making sure that each Utopia's four worlds as completely immersive and believable for the reader as it would be for a visitor to the park.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/utopia/interview.html (594 words)

	Back to utopia - The Boston Globe
		Is the thought of a noncapitalist utopia even possible after Stalinism, after decades of anticommunist polemic on the part of brilliant and morally engaged intellectuals?
		Le Guin's ''The Dispossessed," meanwhile, was written as a pointed critique of typical utopian narratives: It's set on Annares, a planet whose hippie-like inhabitants value voluntary cooperation, local control, and mutual tolerance - but who have preserved their grooviness through dogmatic conformism and an entrenched bureaucracy that stifles innovation.
		Asked in a recent interview why the science fiction novels that he calls utopian portray future societies not even remotely like the cloud-cuckoo-land the term suggests, Jameson explained that the problem confronting Cold War science fiction writers was how to describe utopia ''negatively," in terms of what it won't be like.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/11/20/back_to_utopia (1604 words)

	Utopia Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In her rather hefty novel, set far into the future in Zimbabwe, three sheltered children determine to escape their comfortable life and venture into the "real world" -- a world still dealing with tribal customs, but also reeling with the fallout from nuclear waste, homelessness, and technological advances.
		This novel has been extremely popular in the senior high schools since it was first published in 1954.
		This novel continues to be the epitome of a society suffering from perfection.
	www.teachnlearn.org /Utopia.html (3133 words)

	Amazon.com: Utopia: Books: Lincoln Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Utopia by Lincoln Child combines elements from previous futuristic amusement park concepts such as Westworld, Futureworld and Jurassic Park and then mixes in some of the classic suspense elements of a hostage situation and turns out a pretty good novel.
		Andrew Warne is a robotics specialist who created some of the robotics for Utopia, an entertainment world in the desert of Nevada that uses complex holographic and computerized technology to immerse visitors in various worlds such as the medieval area, or the boardwalk.
		And technology does go wrong in Utopia, and here is where Child throws his unique twist in, because the park systems have been infiltrated by a group of criminals who threaten to use all this incredible technology to kill everyone in the park unless their demands are met.
	www.amazon.com /Utopia-Lincoln-Child/dp/0345455207 (2244 words)

	Amazon.fr : Utopia: Livres en anglais: Lincoln Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It takes a lot of chutzpah to give your novel the same title as one of the most famous novels in the history of English-language literature, even if the original novel didn't spawn a literary field or two (utopian and dystopian fiction) or become an everyday term for the perfect place to live on Earth.
		Yet there's a postmodern appropriateness to applying the title Utopia to a novel set in a theme park that uses cutting-edge technology to create Earth's most desirable fantasy place to visit.
		Utopia, a Nevada amusement park extraordinaire, features several elaborate holographic theme worlds (like Camelot and Gaslight, which meticulously recreates Victorian England), all run by an ultrasophisticated computer system and serviced by robots.
	www.amazon.fr /Utopia-Lincoln-Child/dp/0099462230 (664 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Utopias
		Diderot's Tahiti or Morris's Nowhere gave us utopias where men were free from both physical and moral compulsion, where they worked not out of necessity or a sense of duty but because they found work a pleasurable activity, where love knew no laws and where every man was an artist.
		"We should think of utopia as a world in which individuals and groups had the freedom, will, energy, and talent to make and remake their lives unencumbered by insufficiency and the fear of violent death".
		Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future".
	fusionanomaly.net /utopias.html (1270 words)

	eBay - Book: Utopia (ISBN: 0385506686) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Their communication begins with a simple and dire warning: If their demands are met, none of the 65,000 people in the park that day will ever know they were there; if not, chaos will descend, and every man, woman, and child will become a target.
		Lincoln Child evokes the technological wonders of Utopia with such skill and precision it is hard to believe the park exists only in the pages of this extraordinary book.
		As a solo novel, Utopia is just as intriguing and exciting as his previous work, but exhibits a subtle polish that only creates a more believable atmosphere for suspense.
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	Reviews: July 1981
		Moreover, despite some inaccuracies in the presentation of the particular stages of the development of utopia, the book gives a correct account of the general tendencies in the development of that genre; and as such, it is also a valuable contribution to our understanding of the evolution of utopia.
		Ketterer's analysis of the novel (primarily, but not exclusively, the 1831 edition) is developed in Chapters 3 and 4 through a detailed study of the relationship between metaphor and structure.
		While the four novels at issue here do not form as coherent a package as the earlier Norton reprints, they are important for the places they occupy in the Norton canon and the themes and characters they contain.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/birs/bir24.htm (9445 words)

	Lulu Forums - Lulu.com
		I suppose the only way to make a utopia saleable in a novel would be to bring in conflict from the outside.
		The utopia which turns out to be a distopia, or an illusion--yes, that's sort of been done to death.
		You could show a working "utopia" with enough conflict and challenge to keep the population interested (in fact, maintaining the utopic society could be part of the challenge - it would have to be).
	www.lulu.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=28391 (1654 words)

	Roger MacBride Allen: Utopia
		The novel tells the story of Davlo Lentrall, a brilliant astrophysicist who believes he can terraform Inferno faster than the Settlers by carefully dropping a small comet to form a north polar ocean on Inferno.
		He was able to include information about the Ironheads in the first novel, even if it wouldn't become important until the final book in the series.
		If there is one fault with the novels, it would be the frequency with which Allen reminds the reader of the Three Laws of Robotics.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/allen.html (526 words)

	Utopia, Paradise and Dystopia: Plato to Pleasantville
		This course is based upon a nearly 500-year sample of English and American texts, films and actual communities that imagine and represent utopia.
		Over the centuries, many popular conceptions of Utopia seem to have lost More’s sharp sense of irony in the telling of this story.
		Is this novel successful as a piece of imaginative writing or is it merely a political agenda in the form of a novel?
	www2.newpaltz.edu /~olsent/utopia.htm (1486 words)

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