Dystopia /
To be dystopian, a work needs to foreground the oppressive society in which it is set, using that setting as an opportunity to comment in a critical way on some other society, typically that of the author and/or the audience. In other worlds, the bleak dystopian world should encourage the reader or...
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Ipswich, Mass. :
Salem Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- On dystopia / M. Keith Booker
- Critical contexts : Critical reception / Derek Thiess ; Ursula K. Le Guin's critical dystopias / Raffaella Baccolini ; Totalitarian technocracies / Thomas Horan ; Compare/contrast: media culture, conformism, and commodification in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and M. T. Anderson's Feed / M. Keith Booker
- Critical readings : Science, politics, and utopia in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Tony Burns ; Need it all end in tears? The problem of ending in four classic dystopias / Andrew Milner ; "They got me a long time ago": the sympathetic villain in Nineteen eighty-four, Brave new world, and Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron ; "The wretched refuse of your teeming shore": overpopulation and social breakdown in Harry Harrison's Make room! Make room! / Brian Ireland ; Rationalism, revolution, and utopia in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We / Peter G. Stillman ; The meaning of "I" in Ayn Rand's Anthem / Aaron Weinacht ; Frontierism and dystopian representations of home in F. Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The space merchants / Enrica Picarelli ; A Nineteen eighty-four for the twenty-first century: John Twelve Hawks's Fourth realm trilogy as critical dystopia / Alexander Charles Oliver Hall ; This edged hymn: China Miéville within and against dystopia / Sandy Rankin ; 1983: Cory Doctorow's Little brother / Susan L. Stewart ; Future almost lost: dystopian science-fiction film / Sean Redmond.