Modes of Faith
Modes of Faith

Author: Theodore Ziolkowski

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011-08-22

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1459627377

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In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made a pilgrimage to India in search of enlightenment. Other writers, such as Roger Martin du Gard and Thomas Mann, sought temporary solace in communism or myth. And H. G. Wells, Ziolkowski argues, took refuge in utopian dreams projected in another dimension altogether. Rooted in innovative and careful comparative reading of the work of writers from France, England, Germany, Italy, and Russia, Modes of Faith is a critical masterpiece by a distinguished literary scholar that offers an abundance of insight to anyone interested in the human compulsion to believe in forces that transcend the individual.

Sex in Imagined Spaces
Sex in Imagined Spaces

Author: Caitriona Dhuill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1351549006

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From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised. Reading utopian writing as a dialogue between reality and possibility, this study examines the relationship between historical sex-gender systems and those envisioned by utopian texts. Surveying a broad range of utopian writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Huxley, Zamyatin, Wedekind, Hauptmann, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book reveals the variety and complexity of approaches to re-arranging gender, and locates these 're-arrangements' within contemporary debates on sex and reproduction, masculinity and femininity, desire, taboo and family structure. These issues occupy a position of central importance in the dialogue between utopian imagination and anti-utopian thought which culminates in the great dystopias of the twentieth century and the postmodern re-invention of utopia.

Paradoxes of Utopia
Paradoxes of Utopia

Author: Juan Suriano

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 184935006X

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A social history of revolutionary ideas and lifestyles.

Utopian/dystopian Literature
Utopian/dystopian Literature

Author: Paul G. Haschak

Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama
Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama

Author: John Osborne

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9789057550058

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What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama, a revised and updated version of his The Naturalist Drama in Germany, now widely acknowledged as the standard introduction to the subject. The debates to which he contributed, and in some cases initiated, on Naturalism in the German theatre, Naturalist theory in Germany, and the development of the Naturalist movement to the contemporary Social Democrat movement, have remained central issues. This revised edition preserves the structure and approach of the original, including its emphasis on the early dramas of Hauptmann, while taking full account of subsequent scholarship which provides the context in which this Naturalist playwright's work can be placed.