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- Title
The Book and Utopia.
- Authors
Liyun Hu
- Abstract
Book is always appeared in various Utopian or dystopian fictions. Generally speaking, in Utopia, the book's destiny is burning, mutilation, abandonment, forgery, customization, instrumentalization, and so on. Under the description, book encounters treatments as "cannot read", "need not read", and even "cannot read". In the conflict between centralization and individual, absolute rationalism and emotionalism, technical principle (inhuman) and naturalism (human nature), book, as the manifestation of the spirit of freedom, historical witness, truth endorsement, and emotional catalyst, has become a prohibited object. Satirically, many utopian and dystopian books which reveal the fate of book in utopia suffered the fate of being listed as banned books. In the long river of human history, the book's ban and release, destroyed and hidden, is not only closely linked with the development of thought, but also show that people are constantly trying to adjust the tension of the double-edged nature in book. And opposed to censorship, the pursuit of intellectual freedom is always one of the main theme.
- Subjects
BOOKS &; reading; UTOPIAS; DEFACEMENT of books; FORGERY in literature; FORGERY of manuscripts; BANNED books; NATURALISM; THOUGHT suppression; CENSORSHIP; INTELLECTUAL freedom; ACADEMIC freedom
- Publication
Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 2, p231
- ISSN
1013-090X
- Publication type
Article