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Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity / Phillip E. Wegner.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation.
- Orwell, George.
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
- More, Thomas.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Utopias in literature.
- Comparative literature--American and Russian.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Russian and American.
- Russian fiction--History and criticism.
- Russian fiction.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature)--Russia.
- Space and time in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Communities in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities
- Chapter One. Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
- Chapter Two. Utopia and the Birth of Nations
- Chapter Three. Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward
- Chapter Four. The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias"
- Chapter Five. A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed
- Chapter Six. Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-286) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612758904
- 9781282758902
- 128275890X
- 9780520926769
- 0520926765
- 9781597346689
- 1597346683
- OCLC:
- 60803629
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