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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 Bois, Osip...
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Kotin, Joshua, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Utopias of One / Joshua Kotin. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2018 1 online resource (216 p.) : 1 halftone. 2 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Utopias of One -- PART I. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- Learning from Walden -- W.E.B. Du Bois's Hermeticism -- PART II. THE SOVIET UNION -- Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam's Utopian Anti - Utopianism -- Anna Akhmatova's Complicity -- PART III. THE WORLD -- Wallace Stevens's Point of View -- Reading Ezra Pound and J. H. Prynne in Chinese -- Utopias of two -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration & Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J. H. Prynne-construct utopias of one within and against modernity's two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United States between the buildup to the Civil War and the end of Jim Crow; continues in the Soviet Union between Stalinism and the late Soviet period; and concludes in England and the United States between World War I and the end of the Cold War. The book, in this way, captures how writers from disparate geopolitical contexts resist state and normative power to construct perfect worlds-for themselves alone.Utopias of One makes a vital contribution to debates about literature and politics, presenting innovative arguments about aesthetic difficulty, personal autonomy, and complicity and dissent. The book also models a new approach to transnational and comparative scholarship, combining original research in English and Russian to illuminate more than a century and a half of literary and political history. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Utopias in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General . bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691176710 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887866?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400887866 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400887866/original |
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