Utopia: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life 9783110434781, 9783110427097

Utopia: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life 9783110434781, 9783110427097

Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-g

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The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia 9781487574338

Wittily illustrated by Frank Newfeld, THE GRASSHOPPER is itself the kind of game of which it treats: a spirited and chal

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Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics 9780773586659

Frank Kermode famously commented that the "correlation between early modernist literature and authoritarian politic

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Hippie modernism: the struggle for utopia / [First Edition.] 9781935963097

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Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason 9781503600140

This book uses the writings of T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin to examine the fraught relationship between literary and

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Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life 9780822377184

Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Benjamin Kahan shows it to be much m

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Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life 9780231518406

Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wrig

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The Impossible Voyage 0340149205

'The most astounding passage under sail that has ever been made by one man alone.'The TimesChay Blyth sailed r

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Čínská kuchyně (champagne avantgarde)

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Vital Stein: Gertrude Stein, Modernism and Life 9781474425377

Stein’s modernist fascination with life connects her writing to late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers Offers a

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