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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2018]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc773h5 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.