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Invoking Hope : Theory and Utopia in Dark Times /

"Invoking Hope: Reading Theory and Utopia in Dark Times argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and deep, close, and even critical reading in our current situation of what Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, dark times. Written during 2016, an extraordinaril...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wegner, Phillip E., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction: Reading in Dark Times -- Part I. Reading Theory -- 1 Reading the Event of the New Criticism and the Fate of the Republic -- 2 Toward Non-reading Utopia -- 3 Beyond Ethical Reading -- or, Reading Again the James-Wells Debate -- Part II. Reading Utopia -- 4 John Brown, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Universal History -- 5 Politics, Art, and Utopia in "Babette's Feast" -- 6 Repetition, Love, and Concrete Utopia in 50 First Dates -- 7 Conditions of Utopia in 2312 and The Best of All Possible Worlds 
505 0 |a Conclusion: Optimism and Pessimism in Cloud Atlas -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author 
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