On the occasion of the five-hundredth anniversary of Utopia by Thomas More (1516-2015), this work imposes order on the mass of utopian narratives while offering a morphology of the genre. Based on a study of specific processes involved in constructing fictional worlds, it offers a systematized account of four subgenres illustrated by this corpus.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques