The aim of this article is to analyze the relevance of dystopias in the critique to authoritarianism present in the novel Incident in Antares written by Erico Verissimo. After presenting the main characteristics of utopian ...

To live in a utopia is an old human desire. Its earliest literary representation is probably the story of The Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve living in Paradise. Nevertheless, the word Utopia was only coined in 1516 by ...

The aim of this article is to analyze the relevance of dystopias in the critique to authoritarianism present in the novel Incident in Antares written by Érico Veríssimo. After presenting the main characteristics of utopian ...

The new coronavirus pandemic has made the idea that we are living in the eminences of a dystopia. Instigated by this idea, we explore in this essay the potential of dystopian science fiction texts to tension the notion of ...

This work investigates literary utopias and dystopias; their definitions, similarities and distances as genre. Based on theoretical considerations regarding these two different ways of imagining totalitarian societies, ...

The descent to the underworld, or katabasis, is a well-documented mytheme and a wide-spread literary topos; due to the influence of such canonical authors as Homer, Virgil or Dante Alighieri, it has become one of the ...