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050 00 $aPS648.U85$bH36 2011
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100 1 $aHaney, William S.
245 10 $aUtopia and consciousness /$cWilliam S. Haney.
260 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York :$bRodopi,$c2011.
300 $a155 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aConsciousness, literature & the arts,$x1573-2193 ;$v29
520 $a"In his book Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia and other science fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however, human civilization will never achieve utopia unless humans reach a state of pure consciousness in which they will use their full mental potential and avoid making blunders in life that would undermine the possibility of a utopia. This book develops a non-teleological, comparative poetics between Western and Sanskrit literary traditions by analyzing their opposing theories of language, consciousness and meaning..."--P. [4] of cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index.
505 0 $aUtopia, deconstruction and Sanskrit poetics -- Utopia and unity in Sanskrit poetics -- Utopia, presence, repetition and Vedic philosophy -- Utopia and James Joyce's Ulysses -- Utopia and Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Utopia, the self and the fantastic in Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Utopia, Soyinka's ritual drama, and the mistake of the intellect.
650 0 $aUtopias in literature.
830 0 $aConsciousness, literature & the arts ;$v29.