A modernidade em lugar nenhum: o mundo moderno revisitado pelos romances utópicos de William Morris, H. G. Wells e Aldous Huxley

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Rafael Pinto
• Orientador(a): Limena, Maria Margarida Cavalcanti
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Modernidade; Literatura; Utopia; Crítica
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Modernity; Literature; Criticism
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3309

Modernity is still alive, but not in the same way it has always been. Nowadays, the condition of the modern world is coldly examined, many of its institutions are analyzed and greatly frowned upon, and, therefore, the need for change is evident. The present dissertation arises from this context and aims at taking part in its discussions from the perspective of literature, more precisely of the genre utopia. The objective of our study is to understand what William Morris, H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley, in their utopian novels, have to say about the modern civilization and what changes they propose regarding the problems they witness. First, we start the research by adopting the belief that there is a logic that is present in, permeates and moulds the modern practices and existences: the enlightened reason. Second, we take modernity for its reason, describe it in details and try to see it embodied in the material life, in the segments of production and consumption, politics and science. After this characterization of what modernity is, we finally get to the analyses of the novels. By revealing how the writers see modern reason in their books, we achieve our main goal. Briefly speaking, while Wells views the imperatives of the modern world as great principles that must be clung to and spread, Morris e Huxley are much more critical: both see the darkness of our times and show, through their own understanding of the facts, possible ways out of it. The two writers bring us important contributions that should be considered in the path we have been walking on lately