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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.