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Literary Criticism General

Narrating Utopia

Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature

by (author) Chris Ferns

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780853236047
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $36.50
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780853235941
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $165.00

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Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organizing the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveler's tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing.

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Contributor Notes

Chris Ferns teaches at Mount St. Vincent University, Canada.