Ker remarked that: "Romance means nothing, if it does not convey some notion of mystery and fantasy. In his pioneering work of medieval scholarship, written six years after the first publication of News from Nowhere, W.P. The apparent paradox presented by the full title deserves further investigation. The full title, News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest being some chapters from a Utopian Romance, reveals Morris’s awareness that the strategies of imaginative fiction are not those of the discursive mode which he had used to present his vision of socialism through his journalism and public speaking and to which he had dedicated much of his energies in the 1880’s. It is at once the culmination of the political journalism in which he had attempted to expound the principles of socialism to a wider public and a more realistic version of the "radical fantasies"1 which occupied the later years of his life. News from Nowhere was first published as a serial in the Socialist magazine Commonweal in 1890. It was a product of his thinking about social conditions in late-nineteenth Britain, thinking which had led to his profound engagement with socialist politics. This article contends, however, that the catalytic approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. This original context is reflected in News reference to his. News from Nowhere is the representation in fictional terms of William Morris’s vision of a sane and humanly feasible society. News from Nowhere was serialized in Commonweal, Morriss newspaper for the Socialist League. Written in 1890, at the close of William Morriss most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature. Lineaments of Ungratified Desire: William Morris’s News From Nowhere as Utopian rak s vlemnyek egy helyen Excerpt from News From Nowhere: Or an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters From an Utopian Romance As he formed the words.
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