Description: Culture of the Culture : Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks's Space Opera Series, Paperback by Norman, Joseph S., ISBN 1837644233, ISBN-13 9781837644230, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks became one of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with his space opera series concerned with the pan-galactic utopian civilisation known as "the Culture" widely regarded as his most significant contribution to science fiction. The Culture of "The Culture" focuses solely on this series, providing a comprehensive, thematic analysis of Banks's Culture stories from Consider Phlebas to The Hydrogen Sonata. It explores the development of Banks's political, philosophical and literary thought, arguing that the Culture offers both an image of a harmonious civilisation modelled on an alternative socialist form of globalisation and a critique of our neo-liberal present. As Joseph Norman explains, the Culture is the result of an ongoing utopian process, attempting through the application of technoscience to move beyond obstacles to progress such as imperialism, capitalism, the human condition, religious dogma, patriarchy and crises in artistic representation. The Culture of "The Culture" defines Banks's creation as culture: a utopian way of doing, of being, of seeing: an approach, an attitude and a lifestyle that has enabled, and is evolving alongside, utopia, rather than an image of a static end-state.
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Book Title: Culture of 'the Culture' : Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks's Space Opera Series
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Topic: Modern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Josephs. Norman
Book Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
