Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity /

Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity /

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Author / Creator:	Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 297 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation. More, Thomas, -- Saint, -- 1478-1535. -- Utopia. Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950. Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) 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. American fiction. Communities in literature. Comparative literature -- American and Russian. Comparative literature -- Russian and American. Modernism (Literature) Nationalism in literature. Russian fiction. Space and time in literature. Utopias in literature. Utopias Great Britain. Russia. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126474

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ISBN:	9780520926769 0520926765 0520228286 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520228294 (paper : alk. paper) 0585466092 9780585466095 1597346683 9781597346689 9780520228283 0520228286 9780520228290 0520228294
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-286) and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	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 unrave.
Other form:	Print version: Imaginary communities Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520228286 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Summary:	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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 297 p.)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-286) and index.
ISBN:	9780520926769 0520926765 0520228286 0520228294 0585466092 9780585466095 1597346683 9781597346689 9780520228283 0520228286 9780520228290 0520228294