Modernism and exile: liminality and the utopian imagination
Auteur :
Spariosu, M.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230231412
Date de publication :
4 nov. 2014
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss.