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...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | 205 pages ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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
- Conclusion: utopias of two.