All literature is utopian in that fictive worlds are literally ou topos, i.e., no place. Implicitly or explicitly, literature is almost always a criticism of life because imagined reality is inevitably comparable to sensibly perceived reality. Actions can scarcely be …
“Tempora mutant,” remarked the Roman analysts of social change, to which we can add not only our Amen but also our uncomfortable awareness of the rapidity of change in analyses of change. In the 1950s, Americanists of various disciplines seemed …
Spain made all the difference. Describing in 1946 his own evolution as writer and as political man, George Orwell commented that he had been confused and uncertain until about 1935, but “the Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned …
