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T1 No Emmas in Amaurotum: Theories of Character and Utopian Literature
A1 Martínez Lorente, Joaquín
AB The narratological category of character has been less successfulthan others in doing away with assumptions that derive from the historical/critical usage of the label, particularly in a realistic, novelisticmainstream. The very attempt to build a theory of character that is intrinsicto the utopian genre shows how difficult it is to eliminate thesecriteria, but also to determine to what extent they should be retained,specially when a strict segregationist logic is applied to utopias and tonotions of character in utopias, if the aesthetic superiority of the realistic/novelistic character still hovers on descriptions. Making the narrative“frame” of utopias a more functional and neutral component hasinteresting effects in the classification of information about the individualsof utopian fictions, and allows for important intra-generic (aesthetic)distinctions. An analysis of the characters of More’s Utopia andBacon’s New Atlantis illustrates the relevance of a principle of reflexivitybetween social ideals and the characters of these two works.
SN e-2530-8335
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