Utopian Generations
Subtitle: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (Translation/Transnation)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780691122113
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Politics and literature; Great Britain; English literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; African Languages; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; USA; History; African; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / African; Postcolonial Studies; 20th century; Africa; History and criticism
First sentence: Whoever hasn't yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own sphere and for which he might have absolutely no feeling; whoever hasn't at least felt obscure intimations concerning the approximate location of this greatness in the geography of the human spirit: that person either has no genius in his own sphere, or else he hasn't been educated yet to the niveau of the classic.