... opposite, the feminist anti-utopia or dystopia. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) women are enslaved to men, either as decorative spouses or as simple breeding machines. The feminist dystopia, like in general, takes the form of an intensification and projection of currently existing patterns; hence the feminist utopia will often contain an explicit anti-utopia ... social and political institutions of men crumble long before the cities they build do. A utopian vision of the perfect city seems inevitably doomed; the perfect example of this is the myth of Atlantis. In what is ...

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... Aedificium retains its original architectural character and communicates its original message. Other design elements of the Aedificium also speak this same language of defense. The four towers, which remind Adso of the two Italian castles, are structural commonplaces, although instead of being heptagonal as the Aedificium's are, they are usually round. (Eco, 1983 ... a novel that contains journeys to faraway lands, exciting adventure, and real historical significance. This novel is the fictional tale of a real Muslim traveler in the Mediterranean region. It begins right before 1492, when...

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