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 ...
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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, Jurgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.
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Good Condition. Cover a little creased and bent. Previous owner's name on first inside page. Pages are unmarked and uncreased. Sound overall. Publisher's note: 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. Size: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm. xxvi, 297 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation; More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535 Utopia; Utopias; Utopias in literature; American fiction--History and criticism; Comparative literature--American and Russian; Comparative literature--Russian and American; Russian fiction--History and criticism; Space and time in literature; Nationalism in literature; Communities in literature; Modernism (Literature); ISBN: 0520228294. ISBN/EAN: 9780520228290. Add. Inventory No: 240226NPG010029.
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Very Good Condition. The text appears clean, the cover is in nice condition. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0520228294. ISBN/EAN: 9780520228290. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560796001.
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