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  1. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520926769; 0520926765; 0585466092; 9780585466095; 1597346683; 9781597346689; 9780520228283; 0520228286; 9780520228290; 0520228294
    RVK Categories: EC 6855
    Subjects: Utopie; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 297 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0520926765; 0585466092; 1597346683; 9780520926769; 9780585466095; 9781597346689
    RVK Categories: EC 6855
    Subjects: Literature, Comparative / American and Russian; Literature, Comparative / Russian and American; Roman américain / Histoire et critique; Utopies dans la littérature; Littérature comparée / Américaine et russe; Littérature comparée / Russe et américaine; Roman russe / Histoire et critique; Modernisme (Littérature) / États-Unis; Modernisme (Littérature) / Grande-Bretagne; Modernisme (Littérature) / Russie; Espace et temps dans la littérature; Nationalisme dans la littérature; Communauté dans la littérature; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Utopias in literature; Utopias; Bellettrie; Utopieën; Modernisme (cultuur); Utopias; Utopias in literature; Literatur; Utopie
    Other subjects: Orwell, George / 1903-1950; More, Thomas / Sir, Saint / 1478-1535; Orwell, George / 1903-1950 / Critique et interprétation; More, Thomas / Sir, saint / 1478-1535 / Utopia
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 297 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities -- - Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity -- - The Institutional Being of Genre -- - Space and Modernity -- - Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia -- - Utopia and the Birth of Nations -- - Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions -- - Utopiques and Conceptualized Space -- - Crime and History -- - Utopia and the Nation-Thing -- - Utopia and the Work of Nations -- - Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward -- - Remembering -- - The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac -- - Fragmentation -- - Consumerism and Class -- - "The Associations of Our Active Lifetime" -- - Forgetting -- - The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" -- - Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity -- - The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel -- - "Nameless, Formless Things" -- - "Gaseous Vertebrate" -- - Simplification and the New Subject of History -- - A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed -- - Reclaiming We for Utopia -- - The City and the Country -- - Happiness and Freedom -- - The Play of Possible Worlds -- - We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon -- - Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- - From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia -- - Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia" -- - The Crisis of Modern Reason -- - Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality" -- - "If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals

  3. Imaginary communities
    utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif

    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... more

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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 unrave Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities --Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity --The Institutional Being of Genre --Space and Modernity --Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia --Utopia and the Birth of Nations --Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions --Utopiques and Conceptualized Space --Crime and History --Utopia and the Nation-Thing --Utopia and the Work of Nations --Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward --Remembering --The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac --Fragmentation --Consumerism and Class --"The Associations of Our Active Lifetime" --Forgetting --The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" --Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity --The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel --"Nameless, Formless Things" --"Gaseous Vertebrate" --Simplification and the New Subject of History --A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed --Reclaiming We for Utopia --The City and the Country --Happiness and Freedom --The Play of Possible Worlds --We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon --Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four --From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia --Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia" --The Crisis of Modern Reason --Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality" --"If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0520228294; 1597346683; 9781597346689; 9780520228283; 0520228286; 9780520228290; 9780520926769; 0520926765; 0585466092; 9780585466095
    Subjects: Roman américain; Utopies dans la littérature; Littérature comparée; Littérature comparée; Roman russe; Modernisme (Littérature); Modernisme (Littérature); Modernisme (Littérature); Espace et temps dans la littérature; Nationalisme dans la littérature; Communauté dans la littérature; Utopias; Utopias in literature; Utopias in literature; Utopias; Literature, Comparative; Literature, Comparative; TRAVEL ; Special Interest ; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Semiotics & Theory; Utopias in literature; Utopias; Bellettrie; Utopieën; Modernisme (cultuur); Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Orwell, George 1903-1950; More, Thomas 1478-1535; Orwell, George 1903-1950; More, Thomas 1478-1535
    Scope: Online Ressource (xxvi, 297 p.), ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

    Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary CommunitiesGenre and the Spatial Histories of ModernityThe Institutional Being of GenreSpace and ModernityEstrangement and the Temporality of UtopiaUtopia and the Birth of NationsReauthoring, or the Origins of InstitutionsUtopiques and Conceptualized SpaceCrime and HistoryUtopia and the Nation-ThingUtopia and the Work of NationsWriting the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking BackwardRememberingThe Contemporary Cul-de-SacFragmentationConsumerism and Class"The Associations of Our Active Lifetime"ForgettingThe Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias"Red Star and the Horizons of Russian ModernityThe Long Revolution of The Iron Heel"Nameless, Formless Things""Gaseous Vertebrate"Simplification and the New Subject of HistoryA Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The DispossessedReclaiming We for UtopiaThe City and the CountryHappiness and FreedomThe Play of Possible WorldsWe's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the HorizonModernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-FourFrom Utopian Modernism to Naturalist UtopiaOrwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia"The Crisis of Modern ReasonModernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality""If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals.