Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity /

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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-cen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Temas:
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950 > Criticism and interpretation.
More, Thomas, > Saint, > 1478-1535. > Utopia.
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950
Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint)
American fiction > History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Comparative literature > American and Russian.
Comparative literature > Russian and American.
Russian fiction > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature) > Russia.
Space and time in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Communities in literature.
Utopias.
Utopias
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Roman russe > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Russie.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Communauté dans la littérature.
Utopies.
utopian literature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
American fiction
Communities in literature
Comparative literature > American and Russian
Comparative literature > Russian and American
Modernism (Literature)
Nationalism in literature
Russian fiction
Space and time in literature
Utopias in literature
Bellettrie.
Utopieën.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities
  • Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
  • The Institutional Being of Genre
  • Space and Modernity
  • Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia
  • Utopia and the Birth of Nations
  • Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions
  • Utopiques and Conceptualized Space
  • Crime and History
  • Utopia and the Nation-Thing
  • Utopia and the Work of Nations
  • Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward
  • Remembering
  • The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac
  • Fragmentation
  • Consumerism and Class
  • "The Associations of Our Active Lifetime"
  • Forgetting
  • The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias"
  • Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity
  • The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel
  • "Nameless, Formless Things"
  • "Gaseous Vertebrate"
  • Simplification and the New Subject of History
  • A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed
  • Reclaiming We for Utopia
  • The City and the Country
  • Happiness and Freedom
  • The Play of Possible Worlds
  • We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon
  • Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia
  • Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia"
  • The Crisis of Modern Reason
  • Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality"
  • "If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals.

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