Ebook: Modernism and exile : play, liminality, and the exilic-Utopian imagination
Author: Spariosu Mihai
- Tags: Utopias, Exile (Punishment), Modernism (Christian theology), Modernism (Literature)
- Series: Modernism and.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Language: English
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This book explores exile and utopia as correlated phenomena in Western culture, arguing that they have engendered the exilic-utopian imagination as one of the major components of the modern, power-oriented mentality. Spariosu argues that utopian projects, whether religious or socio-political, virtual or actual, are often generated by an exilic consciousness that attempts to compensate for its groundlessness, which Read more...