Author: William NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Twentieth century interpretations of Utopia. A collection of critical essays edited by William Nelson
Author: William NelsonTwentieth Century Interpretations of Utopia
Author: William NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A collection of critical essays which reveal the compexity and variety of interpretations of Thomas More's Utopia.
Utopia
Author: William NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Technological Utopianism in American Culture
Author: Howard P. SegalPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630616
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Featuring twenty-five writers in all, this book includes Howard P. Segal's acclaimed work on utopian visionaries.
Utopias in the English-speaking World and the Perception of Economic Reality
Author: Thorsten BagschikPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Utopia
Author: Thomas MorePublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679410767
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's Utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination, violence, and religious intolerance. Raphael Hythloday, a philospher and world traveler, describes to the author and his friend an island nation he has visited called Utopia (combining the Greek ou-topos and eu-topos, for "no place" and "good place," respectively). Hythloday believes the rational social order of the Utopians is far superior to anything in Europe, while his listeners find many of their customs appealing but absurd. Given the enigmatic ambivalence of the character that More named after himself and the playful Greek puns he sprinkled throughout (including Hythloday's name, which means "knowing nonsense"), it is difficult to know what precisely More meant his readers to make of all the innovations of his Utopia. But its radical humanism has had an incalculable effect on modern history, and the callenge of its vision is as insistent today as it was in the Renaissance. With an introduction by Jenny Mezciems. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Modern Nicaraguan Poetry
Author: Steven F. WhitePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752326
Category : Nicaraguan poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This work demonstrates that twentieth-century Nicaraguan poetry can not be comprehended in its fullest dimension without an understanding of the literary traditions of France and the United States. Ever since Ruben Dario established Hispanic America's literary independence from Spain in the nineteenth century with his modernista revolution, poets in Nicaragua actively have engaged in a dialogue with the works of French and North American authors as a means of assimilating and transforming them and thereby inventing a profoundly Nicaraguan literary identity. This process has resulted in what might be called a double genealogy in Nicaraguan poetry: certain poets attracted to the alchemical properties of the poetic word and a transcendent, mythic, meta-reality seem to have descended from French literary forebears; others, interested in an expansive, poeticized version of history and verisimilitude, have roots that might be traced to North American soil. This division is a provisional, experimental means of grouping Nicaraguan poets based not on the traditional compartmentalization of literary generations, but on the "family resemblances" of poetic affinities. Presented here is an effective analysis of the "familial" nature of the Nicaraguan poets achieving their own literary independence by taking into account socio-political and historical considerations, common literary themes, as well as the intertextual relations that form the basis of international literary dialogues. This rigorous, but flexible, approach to modern Nicaraguan poetry enables the reader to accompany the poets on their journeys toward God and the end of the world; into a timeless Nicaraguan landscape invaded by U.S. Marines; beyond a contemporary urban portrait of Los Angeles; through the horrifying European battlefields of World War I and the trenches of Nicaragua's revolution against the Somoza dictatorship. The English-speaking reader probably will be unfamiliar with most of the seven preeminent Nicarguan poets whose works are the subject of this book, but it is hoped that the reader will realize that the poetry of Nicaraguans Alfonso Cortes, Salomon de la Selva, Jose Coronel Urtecho, Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Joaquin Pasos, Carlos Martinez Rivas, and Ernesto Cardenal is worthy of serious study. Furthermore, the poems of these authors take on a richer meaning when they are studied as co-presences in relation to certain texts by Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, and Supervielle, or - in an "American" context - by poets such as Whitman, Pound, Eliot, and Masters. A relatively small country with a rich, diverse tradition in poetry, Nicaragua has maintained high literary standards generation after generation and has produced poets of a world-class stature whose time has come for greater recognition.
Twentieth century interpretations of All for love : a collection of critical essays
Author: Bruce Alvin KingThe National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: Chora, Volume Six
Author: Alberto Pérez GómezPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538585
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.