05516nam 2201297 a 450 991078307560332120230607214744.097866127589041-282-75890-X0-520-92676-51-59734-668-310.1525/9780520926769(CKB)1000000000003893(EBL)223089(OCoLC)60803629(SSID)ssj0000176569(PQKBManifestationID)11170557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176569(PQKBWorkID)10206567(PQKB)10913120(MiAaPQ)EBC223089(OCoLC)52861331(MdBmJHUP)muse30665(DE-B1597)520729(DE-B1597)9780520926769(Au-PeEL)EBL223089(CaPaEBR)ebr10051188(CaONFJC)MIL275890(EXLCZ)99100000000000389320011227d2002 ub 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrImaginary communities[electronic resource] utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity /Phillip E. WegnerBerkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (325 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22828-6 0-520-22829-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-286) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities --Chapter One. Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity --Chapter Two. Utopia and the Birth of Nations --Chapter Three. Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward --Chapter Four. The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" --Chapter Five. A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed --Chapter Six. Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four --Notes --IndexDrawing 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 unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.American fictionHistory and criticismUtopias in literatureComparative literatureAmerican and RussianComparative literatureRussian and AmericanRussian fictionHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesModernism (Literature)Great BritainModernism (Literature)RussiaSpace and time in literatureNationalism in literatureCommunities in literature16th century.19th century.20th century.criticism.critique.cultural history.cultural studies.ernst bloch.gilles deleuze.henri lefebvre.homi bhabha.jurgen habermas.karl mannheim.literary criticism.literary history.literary.louis marin.martin heidegger.mikhail bakhtin.modernity.nation state.paul de man.philosophical.philosophy.political.politics.slavoj zizek.social history.social studies.social theory.thomas more.utopian narrative.utopian theory.utopian.utopianism.walter benjamin.American fictionHistory and criticism.Utopias in literature.Comparative literatureAmerican and Russian.Comparative literatureRussian and American.Russian fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Modernism (Literature)Modernism (Literature)Space and time in literature.Nationalism in literature.Communities in literature.809/.93372Wegner Phillip E.1964-1470595MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783075603321Imaginary communities3682564UNINA