TY - GEN T1 - Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity A1 - Wegner, Phillip E., 1964- LA - English PP - Berkeley PB - University of California Press YR - 2002 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1298712874 AB - 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 unrave. OP - 297 CN - PS374.U8 SN - 9780520926769 SN - 0520926765 SN - 9780585466095 SN - 0585466092 SN - 1597346683 SN - 9781597346689 SN - 9780520228283 SN - 0520228286 SN - 9780520228290 SN - 0520228294 KW - Orwell, George, : 1903-1950 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535. : Utopia. KW - Orwell, George, : 1903-1950 KW - Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) KW - American fiction : History and criticism. KW - Utopias in literature. KW - Comparative literature : American and Russian. KW - Comparative literature : Russian and American. KW - Russian fiction : History and criticism. KW - Modernism (Literature) : United States. KW - Modernism (Literature) : Great Britain. KW - Modernism (Literature) : Russia. KW - Space and time in literature. KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - Communities in literature. KW - Utopias. KW - Utopias KW - Roman américain : Histoire et critique. KW - Utopies dans la littérature. KW - Roman russe : Histoire et critique. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) : États-Unis. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) : Grande-Bretagne. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) : Russie. KW - Nationalisme dans la littérature. KW - Communauté dans la littérature. KW - Utopies. KW - utopian literature. KW - TRAVEL : Special Interest : Literary. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Semiotics & Theory. KW - American fiction KW - Communities in literature KW - Comparative literature : American and Russian KW - Comparative literature : Russian and American KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Russian fiction KW - Space and time in literature KW - Utopias in literature KW - Great Britain KW - Russia KW - United States KW - Bellettrie. KW - Utopieën. KW - Modernisme (cultuur) KW - 16th century. KW - 19th century. KW - 20th century. KW - criticism. KW - critique. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural studies. KW - ernst bloch. KW - gilles deleuze. KW - henri lefebvre. KW - homi bhabha. KW - jurgen habermas. KW - karl mannheim. KW - literary criticism. KW - literary history. KW - literary. KW - louis marin. KW - martin heidegger. KW - mikhail bakhtin. KW - modernity. KW - nation state. KW - paul de man. KW - philosophical. KW - philosophy. KW - political. KW - politics. KW - slavoj zizek. KW - social history. KW - social studies. KW - social theory. KW - thomas more. KW - utopian narrative. KW - utopian theory. KW - utopian. KW - utopianism. KW - walter benjamin. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -