Utopias of One / / Joshua Kotin.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 1 halftone. 2 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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