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LITERARY ANTI-UTOPIA ORIGIN: JACK LONDON

Svetlana Grigor'evna Shishkina
Ivanovo State Chemical-Technological University
Submitted: January 10, 2012
Abstract. The author considers the correlation of utopian and anti-utopian motives in Jack London's world-view. They believe that the American writer not indifferent to social-utopian prognostics modeled artistic socialist society as utopia realization ideal in future. In this article it is stated that anti-utopian, critical moods are also characteristic of Jack London. With this purpose the author analyzes his little-known novel The Scarlet Plague and suggests a new point of view on his classic work - the novel The Iron Heel.
Key words and phrases:
утопия
ранняя литературная антиутопия
становление социально-прогностического жанра
специфические характеристики
utopia
early literary anti-utopia
social-prognostic genre formation
specific characteristics
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