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Bernard Shaw and totalitarianism : = longing for utopia /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bernard Shaw and totalitarianism :/ Matthew Yde.
Reminder of title:	longing for utopia /
Author:	Yde, Matthew,
Description:	1 online resource
Subject:	1800 - 1999 -
Subject:	Literature and society - History - 19th century. - England -
Subject:	England. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137330208
ISBN:	1137330201 (electronic bk.)

Bernard Shaw and totalitarianism : = longing for utopia /
Yde, Matthew,

Bernard Shaw and totalitarianism :longing for utopia /Matthew Yde. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: George Bernard Shaw: revolutionary playwright -- Previsions of the Superman in the coming age of will: the quintessence of Ibsenism -- Utopia in flames: Shaw and Wagner's Ring: the perfect Wagnerite -- From hell to heaven: creative evolution and the drive towards the military-industrial-religious complex: Man and superman, John Bull's other island, Major Barbara -- Shaw's modern utopia: Back to Methuselah -- Shaw's totalitarian drama of the thirties; or, Shaw and the dictators: Geneva, The millionairess, The simpleton of the unexpected isles -- George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, utopian to the end: farfetched fables -- Epilogue.

One of the most famous playwrights of the twentieth century, George Bernard Shaw has a reputation as a humanitarian, a seeker of justice - and, in his own words, 'world betterer.' But this is difficult to reconcile with his enthusiastic support of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, which is usually dismissed as comic exaggeration and hyperbole, pugnacious rhetoric, paradox, or the antagonizing of the British political establishment. But as "Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism" shows, Shaw's support was genuine, rooted in his powerful desire for absolute control over the unruly and chaotic, in a deep psychological longing for perfection. Shaw expressed rigid control over his own bodily instincts, and looked for political rulers of strong will and utopian designs to exercise similar control over unruly social elements. For fifty years Shaw expressed a desire for state liquidation of recalcitrant or incorrigibly unproductive citizens in the hope of clearing the ground for a 'higher' kind of human creature. While Shaw knew that the public was not ready to act on such controversial ideas, he did hope that by disseminating his ideas through highly entertaining plays and essays they would take root in the mind and be activated later on by the power of the will.

ISBN: 1137330201 (electronic bk.)

Source: 669350Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

866449
Shaw, Bernard,
1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Chronological Terms:

1800 - 1999
Subjects--Topical Terms:

649312
Literature and society
--History--England--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

660407
England.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR5368.P6 / Y44 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.912

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