Utopian Spaces Of Modernism
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Author |
: R. Gregory |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2011-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230358300 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230358306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopian Spaces of Modernism by : R. Gregory
This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars.
Author |
: David Ayers |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2015-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110434781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110434784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopia by : David Ayers
Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century. The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: · how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity? · how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present? · how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?
Author |
: A. Reeve-Tucker |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2013-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137336620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137336625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by : A. Reeve-Tucker
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models of modernist and twentieth-century literary history. An international group of scholars considers works by 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 contributors prompt new reflections on key aspects of utopianism in experimental twentieth-century literature and non-fictional writing; deepen literary-historical understandings of modernism's socio-political implications; and bear out the on-going relevance of modernism's explorations of utopian thought. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century will appeal to anyone with an interest in how deeply and how differently modernist writers, as well as writers influenced by or resistant to modernist styles, engaged with issues of utopianism, perfectibility, and social betterment.
Author |
: Lawrence Chua |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2021-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824887735 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824887735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bangkok Utopia by : Lawrence Chua
“Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok’s transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepôt. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state. Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city—as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals—from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy—one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities.
Author |
: Valentin Mihaylov |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2022-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000645668 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000645665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Post-Utopian Spaces by : Valentin Mihaylov
Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely book explores ‘ideal’ socialist cities and their transformation under new socio-economic and political conditions after the fall of communism. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book prioritises objective scientific knowledge and presents expert rethinking of the historical experience of urban planning in the former socialist countries of Eurasia. It draws on carefully selected examples of iconic cities of socialist modernism, from the post-Soviet space, Central Europe, and the Balkans. The book explores the ongoing transformation of these cities: from uniformed urban environment to chaotic post-modernist planning, from industrialisation to touristification, from deideologisation to making new and still highly contested heritage. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in urban studies, human geography, sociology, social anthropology, spatial planning, and architectural practice.
Author |
: Amy Bingaman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2003-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134537563 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134537565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embodied Utopias by : Amy Bingaman
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private spaces. The essays in Embodied Utopias argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonialist, progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they survey the dystopian landscapes of the present; and they gesture at the potential for an embodied approach to the urban future, to the changing spaces of cities and virtual landscapes.
Author |
: Gilbert Gung Chin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:35845482 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ideological and Utopian Spaces by : Gilbert Gung Chin
Author |
: Grzegorz Zinkiewicz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1527584887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781527584884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reinventing Utopian Spaces by : Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
This volume brings together explorations of different aspects of Utopia studied from contemporary perspectives. Its main asset is its diversity and the broad scope of themes it covers and discusses. From literary utopias to media and philosophy, it offers a vista of approaches and contexts that testify to the book's interdisciplinary character. In the words of Lyman Towers Sargent, a leading authority on Utopia and Utopian Studies, an interview with whom is at the same time an Introduction to this collection, "Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied and operationalized varies from country to country and over time." Professor Sargent's observation can also serve as the leitmotif of the book and the current research on Utopia, its endless possibilities and varieties.
Author |
: M. Spariosu |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137317216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137317213 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism and Exile by : M. Spariosu
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.
Author |
: David Wild |
Publisher |
: Hyphen Press |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015047072338 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fragments of Utopia by : David Wild
A book of collages representing the dreams and realities of modern architecture.