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Utopia
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Utopia, the principal literary work of Sir T.
More, is a speculative political essay written in Latin, published 1516. The subject is the search for the best possible form of government. More meets at Antwerp a traveller, one Raphael
Hythloday, who has discovered ‘Utopia’, ‘Nowhere land’. Communism is there the general law, a national system of education is extended to men and women alike, and the freest toleration of religion is recognized. The work at once became popular, and was translated by Ralph Robinson into English in 1551, and into French (in 1550), German, Italian, and Spanish.
The name ‘Utopia’ (‘no place’), coined by More, passed into general usage, and has been used to describe, retrospectively, Plato's
Republic, and many subsequent fictions, fantasies, and blueprints for the future, including Bacon's
New Atlantis, Harrington's
The Commonwealth of Oceana, Morris's
News from Nowhere, and
Bellamy's Looking Backward. Satirical Utopias include Swift's
Gulliver's Travels and Samuel Butler's
Erewhon. Many works of
Science Fiction use the Utopian form.
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Utopia Partners With Backweb to Provide Customized Marketing and Internet Broadcasting Solutions; Utopia to incorporate innovative technology for delivery of targeted content.
Business Wire; 9/30/1996; 700+ words
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UTOPIA forging onward without S.L.
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...City Council has decided not to build UTOPIA, where does the embattled fiber-optic...We plan on going forward," said UTOPIA director Paul Morris. "It was a good...having Utah's largest city as part of UTOPIA could have been a huge boost to realizing...
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UTOPIA moves ahead
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 5/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; UTOPIA can come to Utah County without the help...Although there was some doubt whether UTOPIA would thrive without Utah's capital city, it is now clear that it can, said UTOPIA director Paul Morris. With an atrophied...
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UTOPIA full of promise
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/2/2004; ; 700+ words
; UTOPIA could be a technological Utopia, according to an investment consulting firm based in Washington...the proposed Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) could also just be government ganging up on the private sector...
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UTOPIA may face tough test
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 6/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; Bringing UTOPIA to Utah may prove to be a tricky task...as planned. However, the director for UTOPIA said officials worry private industry...s not going to be a secret," said UTOPIA executive director Paul Morris, who said...
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Utopias.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...narrative set forth by Utopias resists clear plotting. "La palabra utopia es particularmente...coherent apprehending of Utopias are provided in the...Raymond Trousson's "Utopia y utopismo" and...Such architecture as Utopias has, in other words...seasoned students of "utopia" looking ...
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Utopia Enters Strategic Partnership with White Pine Software; Companies Combine Strategic Consulting and Internet Technology to Bring Video Conferencing to the Net.
Business Wire; 5/6/1996; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1996--Utopia Inc., a leading national Internet consulting...software for the Internet. The partnership between Utopia and White Pine is threefold -- Utopia hosts and maintains the public reflector for...
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Utopia Joins USWeb Network of Affiliates; Addition of Leading Internet Professional Services Firm Increases USWeb Affiliate Network by 25%.
Business Wire; 11/12/1996; 700+ words
; ...Web professional services firms, and Utopia Inc., a rapidly growing, national Internet...consulting firm, announced today that Utopia has joined the USWeb Network of Affiliates...Web professional services marketplace. Utopia's offices serve customers in Boston...
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UTOPIA Launches North America's Fastest Residential Internet Connection.
Business Wire; 5/6/2009; 700+ words
; WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -- UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure...Internet service is provided over the UTOPIA network by Idaho-based FuzeCore...available - and affordable - because of UTOPIA's fiber-to-the-door infrastructure...
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Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...analysis of Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New...Leslie argues that these utopias do not simply function...history. But in relating utopia too closely to ideological...place of early modern utopias "as amongst the first...history". Leslie depicts Utopia as playing with ambiguities...
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Utopia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Satirical and Other Utopias The adjective utopian...device of describing a utopia in satire or for...old as the serious utopia. The satiric device...back to such comic utopias as that of Aristophanes...The Story of the Utopias (rev. ed. 1966...Patrick, The Quest for Utopia (1952, ...
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utopia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
utopia, utopianism A utopia is an imaginative account of...derived from Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516), but in sociology...Mannheim . In Ideology and Utopia (1929), Mannheim claimed...consciousness which is ubiquitous. Utopias have two dimensions, material...
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In Search of Utopia: Fiction
Book article from: American Eras
In Search of Utopia: Fiction The Utopian Tradition...established tradition. The word utopia — a Greek term...political fantasy titled Utopia . Later British works in...worlds. Yet most literary utopias offered something more substantive...
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Utopia Planitia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Utopia Planitia A vast sloping plain on Mars some 3200 km across, centred at +50° lat., 242° W long. Eastern Utopia was the landing site for Viking 2 in 1976, nearly 200 km west of the crater Mie.
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Utopia Limited
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Utopia Limited, or The Flowers of Progress . Operetta by Sullivan to lib. by Gilbert. Comp. 1893. Prod. London 1893, NY 1894.
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