“Permanent Revolution” to Effect an Ever-Evasive (Ecological) Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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عنوان ژورنال: ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2386-0316,1581-8918
DOI: 10.4312/elope.17.2.117-136