Moons and Planets

• Tipo: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
• Data: 2022

Autores

Malato, Maria Luísa (Autor) FLUP; Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. (Autor) Outra

Livro

Título: The Palgrave handbook of utopian and dystopian literatures

Páginas: 523-533

ISBN: 978-3-030-88653-0; 978-3-030-88656-1

ISBN Eletrónico: 978-3-030-88654-7

Editora: Palgrave Macmillan. Springer

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_41

Abstract (EN): A character from Fontenelle’s 1686 Entretiens sur la plurarité de mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds) observes that those who know the most about a planet are not its inhabitants, but their spectators; that is, an acute and fresh observation of Earth needs a perspective from elsewhere: the moon, the planets, another dimension of space–time. We cannot separate this reflection about “plural worlds” (Fontenelle), from the one about “possible worlds” (Suvin); both multiplicity and possibility are essential to the utopian genre. This chapter focuses on literary utopias—particularly before the twentieth century—with “outer-space” settings. These texts can interrogate, in extremis, the boundaries and presumptions of the genre itself. The chapter concludes with a reading of Jeanette Winterson’s exemplary The Stone Gods.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 11