DICTIONARY OF LITERARY UTOPIAS. Agrandir

DICTIONARY OF LITERARY UTOPIAS.

Edited by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson

FORTUNATI VITA ET TROUSSON RAYMOND -ED-


For about thirty years, Utopia has been the subject of a vast number of studies, essays and congresses, but this is the first dictionary of literary utopias belonging to the Western literary tradition. Such an initiative has been promoted by the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull'Utopia at the University of Bologna. Starting from the methodological hypothesis of utopia as a literary genre, the two editors Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson have covered a very broad chronological period from 1516, when the first edition of Thomas More's Utopia appeared, to 1989, a symbolic date marking the year in which the Berlin Wall fell. This challenging scientific enterprise is characterised by a comparative approach, since the utopian texts analysed belong to a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, from France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, the United States, Brazil, Canada and Australia. This wide range of utopian traditions enables the reader to understand the peculiarities of the utopian paradigm in each nation, precisely because each utopian tradition has developed characteristics which lead back to its own cultural identity and history. The scholars who have contributed to the dictionary have found it important to rethink the meaning and the value of utopia and its future as a literary form in the twenty-first century.


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EditeurHONORE CHAMPION
CollectionDICTIONNAIRES ET REFERENCES
Formatin-8
No dans la collection0005
Nombre de volume1
Nombre de pages736
Type de reliurerelié
Date de publication06/06/2000
Lieu d'éditionPARIS
ISBN2745302183
EAN139782745302182