Peter Fitting
Biographic Data
| ID | 1011051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Fitting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitting |
| SIGNATURE | FITTING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Utopia, dystopia and science fiction
"The once and often suggestive field of utopian fantasy has been exploited, perhaps under the comic-book definition, into a bastard literary device known as 'science fiction.' This product bears about the same resemblance to utopian speculation that the tales of Horatio Alger bore to the economic theories of Adam Smith. / [Literary] forms are the common property . . . of writers and audiences or readers, before any communicative composition can o…
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Cha…
Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme
A Short History of Utopian Studies
This article presents a brief review of the constitution and development of utopia as a field of study, with an emphasis on the years preceding its revival in the 1970s. The study follows a similar trajectory to the one outlined in various articles in the special issue of SFS devoted to the history of sf criticism (#78, July 1999)-a growing awareness, first of all, that there are similarities between certain works which lead to attempts to group …
Society for Utopian Studies
The Moon Pool
Book Review| July 01 2005 The Moon Pool The Moon PoolMerritt, A.; Levy, Michael Peter Fitting Peter Fitting Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (2): 301–303. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718746 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Fitting; The Moon Pool. Utopian Studies 1 July 2005; 16 (2): 301–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718746 Download citation file:…
Narrating Utopian Space
Impulse or Genre or Neither
Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent Feminist Science Fiction
Pamela Sargent’s The Shore of Women (1986), Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean (1986), and Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) may be read as interlocutors in a dialogue with the feminist utopias of the 1970s. In terms of its setting and plot, Sargent’s The Shore of Women portrays a matriarchal society which dominates and exploits men as a failed utopia; and in its appeal for a reconciliation of the sexes it seems to have accommod…
In Response to Pamela Sargent
Library News
Futurecop
Both in what it shows and in what is absent from it, Blade Runner (1982: deviates in morally significant ways from the 1968 novel by Dick on which it is based. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? precariously balances two themes connected with the “replicants”: they represent the oppressed and exploited in capitalist society and at the same time embody the danger of humans becoming mechanized. The logical nexus between these two thematic ideas i…
Philip K. Dick in France
For men only
So We All Became Mothers
One of the most significant features of the revival of utopian themes in US popular fiction has been the impact of feminism. Through an examination of seven novels, I will argue both for the importance of feminist ideals in reshaping utopian writing, especially in its portrayal of everyday life in worlds without the present hierarchies and gender system, and for the effectiveness of such writing in awakening and giving shape and direction to exis…
Peter Fitting on the Borgo Press
Reality as Ideological Construct
This essay focuses attention on a scene that recurs in the fictions of Dick: the hero's discovery, that what he had taken to be reality, phenomenal and empiric, was in fact only a simulacrum put in place at his intention or a hallucination which had imposed on him-a scene corresponding to a certain category of dreams that we have all had. This discovery scene, the variable forms and role of which in the Dickian imagination Peter Fitting presently…
Marxism and Culture
Symposium on Alien
The Modern Anglo-American SF Novel
Ubik
SF Criticism in France
Orientations actuelles de la science-fiction
So We All Became Mothers
One of the most significant features of the revival of utopian themes in US popular fiction has been the impact of feminism. Through an examination of seven novels, I will argue both for the importance of feminist ideals in reshaping utopian writing, especially in its portrayal of everyday life in worlds without the present hierarchies and gender system, and for the effectiveness of such writing in awakening and giving shape and direction to exis…
A Short History of Utopian Studies
This article presents a brief review of the constitution and development of utopia as a field of study, with an emphasis on the years preceding its revival in the 1970s. The study follows a similar trajectory to the one outlined in various articles in the special issue of SFS devoted to the history of sf criticism (#78, July 1999)-a growing awareness, first of all, that there are similarities between certain works which lead to attempts to group …
Reality as Ideological Construct
This essay focuses attention on a scene that recurs in the fictions of Dick: the hero's discovery, that what he had taken to be reality, phenomenal and empiric, was in fact only a simulacrum put in place at his intention or a hallucination which had imposed on him-a scene corresponding to a certain category of dreams that we have all had. This discovery scene, the variable forms and role of which in the Dickian imagination Peter Fitting presently…
Symposium on Alien
SF Criticism in France
Orientations actuelles de la science-fiction
Ubik
The Modern Anglo-American SF Novel
Symposium on Alien
Reality as Ideological Construct
This essay focuses attention on a scene that recurs in the fictions of Dick: the hero's discovery, that what he had taken to be reality, phenomenal and empiric, was in fact only a simulacrum put in place at his intention or a hallucination which had imposed on him-a scene corresponding to a certain category of dreams that we have all had. This discovery scene, the variable forms and role of which in the Dickian imagination Peter Fitting presently…
Marxism and Culture
Peter Fitting on the Borgo Press
So We All Became Mothers
One of the most significant features of the revival of utopian themes in US popular fiction has been the impact of feminism. Through an examination of seven novels, I will argue both for the importance of feminist ideals in reshaping utopian writing, especially in its portrayal of everyday life in worlds without the present hierarchies and gender system, and for the effectiveness of such writing in awakening and giving shape and direction to exis…
Futurecop
Both in what it shows and in what is absent from it, Blade Runner (1982: deviates in morally significant ways from the 1968 novel by Dick on which it is based. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? precariously balances two themes connected with the “replicants”: they represent the oppressed and exploited in capitalist society and at the same time embody the danger of humans becoming mechanized. The logical nexus between these two thematic ideas i…
Philip K. Dick in France
For men only
Library News
Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent Feminist Science Fiction
Pamela Sargent’s The Shore of Women (1986), Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean (1986), and Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) may be read as interlocutors in a dialogue with the feminist utopias of the 1970s. In terms of its setting and plot, Sargent’s The Shore of Women portrays a matriarchal society which dominates and exploits men as a failed utopia; and in its appeal for a reconciliation of the sexes it seems to have accommod…
In Response to Pamela Sargent
Impulse or Genre or Neither
Narrating Utopian Space
The Moon Pool
Book Review| July 01 2005 The Moon Pool The Moon PoolMerritt, A.; Levy, Michael Peter Fitting Peter Fitting Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (2): 301–303. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718746 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Fitting; The Moon Pool. Utopian Studies 1 July 2005; 16 (2): 301–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718746 Download citation file:…
Society for Utopian Studies
A Short History of Utopian Studies
This article presents a brief review of the constitution and development of utopia as a field of study, with an emphasis on the years preceding its revival in the 1970s. The study follows a similar trajectory to the one outlined in various articles in the special issue of SFS devoted to the history of sf criticism (#78, July 1999)-a growing awareness, first of all, that there are similarities between certain works which lead to attempts to group …
Utopia, dystopia and science fiction
"The once and often suggestive field of utopian fantasy has been exploited, perhaps under the comic-book definition, into a bastard literary device known as 'science fiction.' This product bears about the same resemblance to utopian speculation that the tales of Horatio Alger bore to the economic theories of Adam Smith. / [Literary] forms are the common property . . . of writers and audiences or readers, before any communicative composition can o…
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Cha…
Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme
Art (19 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works)