CHAPTER 9: Conquest Utopias and dystopias as historical paradigm and parable: New World myth, Old World reception: 9.1 Plato's vs. More's model: Historical rise/fall of empires.

Section 1 of chapter 9 of the book "Imperial Histories From Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest" is presented. It explores the utopian and dystopian discourse, which is a kind of textuality that links the ethical critique, political propaganda, and cultural myth...

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Publicado en:Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest & Conquest pp. 118 - 124
Autor principal: González-Casanovas, Roberto J.
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Publicado: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1997
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Sumario:Section 1 of chapter 9 of the book "Imperial Histories From Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest" is presented. It explores the utopian and dystopian discourse, which is a kind of textuality that links the ethical critique, political propaganda, and cultural mythography. It would be interesting to set a working model of utopia/dystopia from Plato's mythic history of Athens and Atlantis. This model does not only serve as a substitute to the stagnant and less historical translation of utopia in Thomas More.