Imaginary communities [[electronic resource] ] : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity / / Phillip E. Wegner

• Autore: Wegner Phillip E. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93372
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: 16th 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imaginary communities
• ISBN: 9786612758904; 1-282-75890-X; 0-520-92676-5; 1-59734-668-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783075603321
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