Utilitarismul în literatura rusă: utopia lui Cernîșevski și distopia lui Odoevski
Utilitarianism in Russian Literature: Chernyshevsky`s Utopia and Odoyevsky`s Dystopia
Author(s): Alina IacobSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Social history, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Vladimir Odoevsky; Nikolai Chernyshevsky; utopian thinking; Utopia; dystopia;
Summary/Abstract: The present article examines how the theory of utilitarianism, highly debated in the Russian society of the 19th century, is embodied in the field of literature through the works of two fundamentally different authors: Vladimir Odoyevsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. Through this article we endeavour to discover how the polarity of the utopia-dystopia genre leads to the creation of two opposite ethe, which nevertheless stem from a sole reductive mentality.
Journal: Slovo
- Issue Year: 9/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 52-77
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Romanian