A Fugitive From Utopia
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Author | : Stanisław Barańczak |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674326859 |
Baranczak--a poet, critic, translator, and Polish émigré--supplies politico-cultural context for Herbert while analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry, he shows, is based on permanent confrontation--of Western tradition with the experience of an Eastern European, of classicism with modernity, of cultural myth with empiricism.
Author | : James Pratt |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496220145 |
Alongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles Fourier, envisioned a society in which basic human ambitions would be expressed and cultivated, tied together by the bonds of emotion. Fourier’s self-appointed disciple Victor Considerant led the establishment of La Réunion in 1855, organized under a Paris stock company. James Pratt weaves together the dramatic story of this utopia: the complex tale of a diverse group of Europeans who sought a new society but were forced to face the realities of life in nineteenth-century Texas. Considerant’s followers endured a long ocean voyage with Spanish gunboats following in their Caribbean wake. They brushed blooming magnolias through Buffalo Bayou between Galveston Bay and Houston—so narrow a channel that two ships could not pass simultaneously. They walked for three weeks across barren country, came into conflict with the Texas legislature over land, and had to buy their stolen horses back from Chief Ned, a famous Delaware Indian living in Texas. They were buffeted in the rising political winds of abolition, and droughts ruined their crops. In the end, however, it was their flamboyant leader Victor Considerant who sabotaged their dream.
Author | : José Esteban Muñoz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814796001 |
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.
Author | : Michael J. Lewis |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1400884314 |
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communal dormitories. Some of these settlements were sanctuaries from religious persecution, like those of the German Rappites, French Huguenots, and American Shakers, while others were sanctuaries from the Industrial Revolution, like those imagined by Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and other Utopian visionaries. Because of their differences in ideology and theology, these settlements have traditionally been viewed separately, but Lewis shows how they are part of a continuous intellectual tradition that stretches from the early Protestant Reformation into modern times. Through close readings of architectural plans and archival documents, many previously unpublished, he shows the network of connections between these seemingly disparate Utopian settlements—including even such well-known town plans as those of New Haven and Philadelphia. The most remarkable aspect of the city of refuge is the inventive way it fused its eclectic sources, ranging from the encampments of the ancient Israelites as described in the Bible to the detailed social program of Thomas More's Utopia to modern thought about education, science, and technology. Delving into the historical evolution and antecedents of Utopian towns and cities, City of Refuge alters notions of what a Utopian community can and should be.
Author | : José Esteban Muñoz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814757286 |
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Author | : Tracy Chevalier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135314101 |
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author | : Tim Hope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780754673170 |
This book presents a critical analysis of theory, policy and practice in crime prevention and community safety. It focuses upon, and stands in contrast to, the development of crime prevention policy and practice in England and Wales, particularly since 1997, the advent of the 'New Labour' Governments of Prime Minister Tony Blair. The book draws together and synthesizes a range of studies carried out by the author and conducted contemporaneously with policy and practice developments since 1997. At the same time, it presents an independent and critical analysis of the ideas and propositions informing policy, drawn from the author's development of an explanatory theory that would account for empirical findings and governmental approaches.
Author | : Darko Suvin |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Aufsatzsammlung |
ISBN | : 9783039114030 |
Darko Suvin explores utopian horizons in fiction & utopian/dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s, focusing in the United States & United Kingdom, but drawing also on French, German & Russian sources.
Author | : Ina Batzke |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2018-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3839440270 |
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.
Author | : Lewis Mumford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Utopias |
ISBN | : |