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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kotin, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Utopias in literature.
Utopies dans la littérature.
utopian literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > General.
Utopias in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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