uchronia

英語

詞源

源自法語 uchronie，仿utopia，由古希臘語 οὐ (ou, 「不」) + χρόνος (khrónos, 「時間」) + -ia構成。

名詞

uchronia

1. 架空歷史 （指文學作品等）
   • 1987, Paul K. Alkon, Origins of Futuristic Fiction，第 127 頁:

     Mercier's resort to uchronia, on the other hand, initiates a new paradigm for utopian literature not only by setting action in a specific future chronologically connected to our past and present but even more crucially by characterizing that future as one belonging to progress and thus linked causally if not immediately to the reader's time.

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   • 2007, Andy Wood, The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England，第 211 頁:

     For Portelli, uchronia comprises 'that amazing scene in which the author imagines what would have happened if a certain historical event had not taken place'.

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   • 2011, Lealand B Yeager, Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?，第 389 頁:

     This uchronia actually exerted some influence in its time, converting many readers to socialism because they wanted to live in the world of Bellamy's vision.

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衍生詞彙

• uchronian
• uchronic