Utopias of one /

"Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular -- and thus exclusive and inimitable. Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers -- Henry David Thoreau, W.E.B. Du...

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Hlavní autor: Kotin, Joshua (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2018]
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc773h5
Obsah:
  • Introduction: utopias of one
  • The United States of America. Learning from Walden
  • W.E.B. Du Bois's hermeticism
  • The Soviet Union. Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam's utopian anti-utopianism
  • Anna Akhmatova's complicity
  • The world. Wallace Stevens's point of view
  • Reading Ezra Pound and J.H. Prynne in Chinese
  • Conclusion: utopias of two.