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Utopias of One / Joshua Kotin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 1 halftone. 2 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691176710
  • 9781400887866
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93372 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.U8 K68 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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 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.

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