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03414aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 A511DFD4F2F211E49475ABD7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150505014724 008 140917s2015 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0230231411 020 $a 9780230231412 035 $a (OCoLC)897028342 040 $a NLE $b eng $e rda $c NLE $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d LTSCA $d OCLCF $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.U8 $b S63 2015 082 04 $a 321.07 $2 23 100 1 $a Spariosu, Mihai, $e author. 245 10 $a Modernism and exile : $b play, liminality, and the exilic-Utopian imagination / $c Mihai I. Spariosu. 246 1 $a Play, liminality, and the exilic-Utopian imagination 264 1 $a Basingstoke ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a xxi, 209 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Modernism and ... 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index. 505 0 $a Part I: Exile, Utopia, and modernity: A cultural-theoretical approach -- Modernity and modernism: Preliminary theoretical considerations -- Play and liminality in moderinst cultural theory -- Exile and Utopia as playful liminality -- Part II: Historical excursus: Modernity and the Exilic-Utopian imagination in the ancient world -- The birth of modernity: The Exilic-Utopian -- Imagination in ancient Near-Eastern narratives (The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Pentateuch) -- Modern consciousness and the Exilic-Utopian imagination in the Hellenic World: Sophocles and Plato -- Part III: Exile, Utopia, and modernism in literary discourse -- The Exilic-Utopian imagination and literary discourse in modernism and postmodernism -- Exile, Utopia, and the Will to Empire: Conrad's Heart of Darnkess -- Utopia, totalitarianism, and the will to return: Koestler's Darkness at Noon -- Exile, dystopia, and the will to order: Huxley's Brave New World. 520 $a 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 it perceives negatively, as ontological lack or emptiness. The author supports his argument with a wealth of examples, ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and Plato's dialogues in Antiquity to 20th century literary masterpieces produced at the height of European Modernism, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers, and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. -- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Utopias. 650 0 $a Exile (Punishment) 650 0 $a Modernism (Christian theology) 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 7 $a Exile (Punishment) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918133 650 7 $a Modernism (Christian theology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024448 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 650 7 $a Utopias. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01163359 830 0 $a Modernism and-- 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180703025220.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171221015825.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A511DFD4F2F211E49475ABD7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search