Utopian Thought in the Western World

Core essay. Literary playing fields in motion: Remapping and rereading nineteenth-century realism

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.109.4.0896

Problematic realisms: german poetic realism and michel butor's portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe

The principal argument of this essay is that Theodor Fontane’s Quitt (1890) can be read as a critical engagement with utopianism. Quitt has previously been analysed as a utopian novel in a narrow sense, specifically because of the Mennonite community in America in which the second half of the novel is set. This analysis is unsatisfactory, however, because it ignores other, associated facets of utopian ways of thinking which permeate the novel, from imagining a happier elsewhere, to political ideologies, to ideals of human conduct. This essay proposes an interpretation of the novel in which ideals of various kinds function within the perception of reality, but can also be morally dangerous when they lead human beings away from a positive engagement with the reality in which they find themselves.

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Utopia in the age of Realism : Theodor Fontane's Quitt

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Paul Heyse : philologue, traducteur, poète

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Problematic realisms: german poetic realism and michel butor's portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe

Utopia in the age of Realism : Theodor Fontane's Quitt

Paul Heyse : philologue, traducteur, poète