خوانشی پسااستعماری از آرمانشهر سرتوماس مور
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, along with Machiavelli’s The Prince, is a book which is assumed to have heavily and seriously affected the destiny of the imperialist Europe in later centuries. This study is to examine the fact that Utopia, being introduced by many as a dystopia, is also a land which is in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Shahid Beheshti University
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Naqd-i Zabān va Adabīyyāt-i Khārijī |
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| Online Access: | http://clls.sbu.ac.ir/article/view/4816 |
| Summary: | Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, along with Machiavelli’s The Prince, is a book which is assumed to have heavily and seriously affected the destiny of the imperialist Europe in later centuries. This study is to examine the fact that Utopia, being introduced by many as a dystopia, is also a land which is intrinsically a colonizer and a good model for The Great Britain. By applying the reading method called ‘Contrapuntal’ proposed by Edward Said in his book Culture and Imperialism, it is possible to highlight the features that place this text within the imperialistic and colonialist frame. To do so, the historical position of Renaissance Humanism is studied and then it is clarified that Utopia, as a polemic text is also a narrative which keeps an organic unity with the imperialistic tradition of western novel writing. Hence, the present article will closely examine the dominant discourses within this text including ‘civilizing mission’, self and other, ‘war’, and ‘slavery. |
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| ISSN: | 2008-7330 2588-7068 |