Search
Now showing items 11-19 of 19
Pigs in Heaven? Utopia, Animality and Plato’s Hūopolis
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013)
Conrad, Ideology and Utopia
(Peter Lang, 2019)
Abstract: This chapter argues for the centrality of the dialectic of ideology and utopia in Joseph Conrad’s novelistic work. Unlike Jameson (1981), I argue that grasping this dialectic neither presupposes jettisoning the ...
Factories, Utopias, Decoration and Upholstery: On Utopia, Modernism, and Everyday Life
(2014)
This essay explores the ways in which the notion of “everyday life” helps us stage a theoretically productive encounter between modernism/modernity and utopia within the context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ...
Suspicor enim eam gentem a graecis originem duxisse
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2016)
Although More’s Utopia is a work for which classical Greek language and literature are central, it was not until 1970 that the work was translated into Greek. During the sixteenth century, Greek scholars bypassed the ...