The Renaissance Utopia

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A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book is the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis’ Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981) to understand the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Where Davis concentrated on understanding utopias historically, Renaissance Utopia also seeks to make sense of utopia as a literary form, offering both a new typology of utopia and a new history of European humanist utopianism. This book examines how the utopia was transformed from an intellectual exercise in philosophical interrogation to a serious means of imagining practical social reform. In doing so it argues that the relationship between Renaissance utopia and Renaissance dialogue is crucial; the utopian mode of discourse continued to make use of aspects of dialogue even when the dialogue form itself was in decline. Exploring the ways in which utopian texts assimilated dialogue, Renaissance Utopia complements recent work by historians and literary scholars on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modelling a very particular community and literary mode - the utopia.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Chloë Houston
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-02-24
File : 199 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317017981


Melancholy Genius And Utopia In The Renaissance

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Genre : History
Author : Winfried Schleiner
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Release : 1991
File : 360 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015032539432


The Utopia

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Genre : Utopias
Author : Sir Thomas More (Saint)
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Release : 1912
File : 450 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106005426264


Encyclopedia Of The Renaissance Shakespeare Zwingli

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Genre : History
Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Release : 1999
File : 616 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015048840055


Literature Of The Western World The Ancient World Through The Renaissance

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Release : 1992
File : 2468 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0024278254


The End Of Ideology Utopia

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In tracing the modern moral imagination, Donskis works out a theory of tolerance, dialogue, human intersubjectivity, the Other, ideology, and utopia. This theory then provides the framework for social and cultural criticism. By considering the work of Kavolis, Gellner, Dumont, and Mumford, Donskis argues that modern critiques of culture originate in political philosophy, sociology, and the comparative study of civilization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

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Genre : History
Author : Leonidas Donskis
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release : 2000
File : 240 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015049556486


Architecture And Utopia

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Franco Borsi
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Release : 1997
File : 204 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015053174978


Viator

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Genre : Civilization, Medieval
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Release : 2009
File : 408 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822036332476


An Introduction To The Study Of The Renaissance

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Genre : Renaissance
Author : Lilian F. Field
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Release : 1898
File : 326 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89094691292


A Poetics Of Utopia

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Genre : Utopias
Author : Mircea Crăciun
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Release : 2011
File : 240 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000142485741