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.