FronteiraZ (Oct 2012)
A poética do perfeito: elementos da narrativa utópica
Abstract
The Utopian Narrative emerges as a literary form in the Renaissance, in the work of Thomas More, Utopia, and founds a tradition in literature, which seeks to maintain or transcend the model features the English writer. This article seeks to define and list these characteristics of traditional Utopian Narrative, from the theories of Raymond Trousson, Luigi Firpo, Lyman Tower Sargent, Émile-Michel Cioran and others, in order to propose a system of essential elements for the analysis of this literary form.