Modernism And Exile: Liminality And The Utopian Imagination

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.

• | Author: M. Spariosu
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 04, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 230 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0230231411
• | ISBN-13: 9780230231412