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Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought
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Pages: 391
Authors: Adam Stock
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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Over the past few years, ‘dystopia’ has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specif
Survive and Resist
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Shauna L. Shames
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-06 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Authoritarianism is on the march—and so is dystopian fiction. In the brave new twenty-first century, young-adult series like The Hunger Games and Divergent ha
The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: M. Keith Booker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-05-17 - Publisher: Praeger

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A detailed discussion of literary dystopias as social criticism in Zamyatin's We, Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's 1984, and in contemporary works.
Dystopia
Language: en
Pages: 569
Authors: Gregory Claeys
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works
Dystopian Literature
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: M. Keith Booker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-05-25 - Publisher: Greenwood

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dysto