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Modernism and Exile

Liminality and the Utopian Imagination
By:M. Spariosu
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230231412
eText ISBN:9781137317216
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.