Add to ORKGThe criticism utopian fiction has focused on the issues of position, politics, or purpose. These approaches have yielded systems of categorizing utopias that are dichotomous or unidimensional. Thus, the varieties of utopian writing have been categorized on the basis of such descriptions as escape versus reconstruction, authoritarian versus anti-authoritarian, the degree of centralization, or the positions of upward, outward, and inward. While these categories raise helpful questions, the central question of how a utopia is organized goes unanswered. To redress this shortcoming of the criticism of utopian writing is the central purpose of this study. The approach here is to use four paradigms as categories within which to range utopian ficti...
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