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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-31 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefi
The Varieties of Authorial Intention
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: John Farrell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-17 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the int
Paranoia and Modernity
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Pages: 356
Authors: John C. Farrell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, M
Political Uses of Utopia
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Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought
An American Utopia
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Fredric Jameson
Categories: Philosophy
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Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically ques