http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/utopia The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/new-york-times-and-city-of-sun-notes-toward-history-of-forgetting <p>A history of forgetting is long overdue. I start it today with a short note prompted by recent news from Russia. The business section of <i>The New York Times</i> features an interesting piece by Andrew Kramer about the Russian government's push to replicate Silicon Valley by founding a new city not far from Moscow.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/new-york-times-and-city-of-sun-notes-toward-history-of-forgetting">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/new-york-times-and-city-of-sun-notes-toward-history-of-forgetting#comments Campanella city of the sun high-tech Huxley Orwell Russia silicon valley The New York Times Utopia Zamyatin http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/723 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:35:48 -0700 Gregory Freidin 723 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/utopian-voices <p>More's <i>Utopia</i>, like the humanist ideology it represents, celebrates dialogue—it is probably not going too far even to say that the fiction fetishizes dialogue. And yet, the depiction of Utopia is notably monological, for reasons that bear on both humanism of this moment and on the emergence of prose fiction as a vehicle for ideological critique.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/utopian-voices">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/utopian-voices#comments humanism prose fiction the novel Thomas More Utopia http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/621 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:32:33 -0800 Roland Greene 621 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/hiddenness-of-open-road <p>In his dissertation &quot;Medial Situations and Generic Possibility in the Long Eighteenth Century,&quot; Colin Moore argues that the picaresque fiction is predicated on a basic communicative situation that he calls &quot;an encounter with a stranger,&quot; and that this condition in turn determines the nature of time and space in such a fiction. That is, each episode is a &quot;one-time&quot; event, and the landscape of the fiction is a ribbon of road on which the narrator and the reader cannot stop or go backward.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/hiddenness-of-open-road">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/hiddenness-of-open-road#comments humanism prose fiction the novel Thomas More Utopia http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/540 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:03:40 -0800 Roland Greene 540 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/sounds-of-liberty <p>In his reply to <a href="/post-1989-farewell-pessimistic-quietistic-anarchism" title="previous blog post">my recent blog post</a>, Joel Burges raises an important question: does the new imaginative thinking about history I find in recent literature and cinema also mean a &quot;return to liberalism&quot;?</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/sounds-of-liberty">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/sounds-of-liberty#comments 1989 after &#039;89 Avatar Fredric Jameson Goethe Jay Winter Kazuo Ishiguro liberalism Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Utopia http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/539 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:31:22 -0800 Amir Eshel 539 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/hidden-things-utopia <p>Thomas More's <i>Utopia</i> (1516) is an odd but inescapable model for early modern European and transatlantic prose fiction, including the first novels. In the next few weeks I will reflect here on how an aspect of More's fictional commonwealth has a predictive power over later fictions: that is, what cannot be seen, done, or said in Utopia.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/hidden-things-utopia">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/hidden-things-utopia#comments humanism prose fiction the novel Thomas More Utopia http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/427 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:48:41 -0800 Roland Greene 427 at http://arcade.stanford.edu