Abstract
This paper intends to study the poetics of water in various 16th and 17th utopias or imaginary tales: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) and François Rabelais’s Gargantua (1534), Pantagruel (1532) and Quart Livre (1552). Based on Gaston Bachelard and Gilbert Durand’s research, the analysis intends to highlight the function of the aquatic element in the writing of fantastic tales inspired notably by Lucian (A True Story). Water being the infinitely malleable substance, endowed with plural metaphors and in turn positively and negatively valued, it plays multiple roles in poetic imagination, which this analysis attempts to determine.
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