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.
Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu ...
Challenging the distinctions made between archaic and later Greek culture, this study provides a model of cultural change in Greek antiquity. The author examines the nature of the Hellenic mentality in such texts as the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Poetics".
Challenging the distinctions made between archaic and later Greek culture, this study provides a model of cultural change in Greek antiquity. The auth...
