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By A. Reeve-Tucker,N. Waddell

ISBN-10: 0230358934

ISBN-13: 9780230358935

ISBN-10: 1349347639

ISBN-13: 9781349347636

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature within the 20th Century considers the hyperlinks among utopianism and modernism in methods: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that demanding situations authorized severe types of modernist and twentieth-century literary background. a world workforce of students considers works by means of E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Naomi Mitchison, Katharine Burdekin, Rex Warner, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Bowen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Ernst Bloch. In doing so, this volume's participants instructed new reflections on key features of utopianism in experimental twentieth-century literature and non-fictional writing; deepen literary-historical understandings of modernism's socio-political implications; and undergo out the on-going relevance of modernism's explorations of utopian inspiration. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature within the 20th Century will entice an individual with an curiosity in how deeply and the way otherwise modernist writers, in addition to writers inspired by way of or immune to modernist kinds, engaged with problems with utopianism, perfectibility, and social betterment.

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