Worlds gone awry :: essays on dystopian fiction /
Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (vii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| spelling | Worlds gone awry : essays on dystopian fiction / edited by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett and Ashley G. Anthony. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (vii, 252 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails. Feminine subterfuge in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last / Megan E. Cannella -- "Forget sad things": Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian short fiction as social critique / Ashley G. Anthony -- "A secure but partly demented society": reconsidering human depravity in William Golding's Lord of the Flies / Natasha W. Vashisht -- Streets of spectrality: Kevin Barry's dystopian City of Bohane / Deirdre Flynn -- Interrogating utopia: on Colin Macinnes' Absolute Beginners / Andrew Hammond -- "What if I said that he's a god?": messianism in Cormac McCarthy's The Road / Wes Yeary -- "Maps and mazes": mapping as metaphor in postsecular America / Harold K. Bush -- Unmasking the deception: the hermeneutic of suspicion in Lois Lowry's The Giver / C. Clark Triplett and John J. Han -- Ending dystopia: the feminist critique of culture in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy / Jane Beal -- Commodifying the revolution: dystopian young adult literature and cultural critique / Jillian L. Canode -- Dystopia, competition and reality television tropes in The Bachman Books: "The Long Walk" and "The Running Man" / Alissa Burger -- Stranger than fiction: locating the digital dystopia in contemporary fiction / Robyn N. Rowley -- Disembodied heads and headless philosophies: C.S. Lewis' aesthetic rejoinder to dystopian utility in that hideous strength / Matthew Bardowell -- The creation of the future from remnants of the past: order from disorder in William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash / Melanie A. Marotta -- The future is white, the future is undead: reframing the American vampire dystopia in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain Trilogy / Simon Bacon -- Here's looking at you, kids: the urgency of dystopian texts in the secondary classroom / Michael A. Soares. Print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Dystopias in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96002302 Essay. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044913 Dystopias. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040350 Dystopies dans la littérature. Essai (Genre littéraire) Dystopies. dystopias. aat LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Composition & Creative Writing. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Rhetoric. bisacsh REFERENCE Writing Skills. bisacsh Dystopias fast Dystopias in literature fast Essay fast Han, John J., editor. Triplett, C. Clark, editor. Anthony, Ashley G., editor. has work: Worlds gone awry (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFxV7vMQBHRtKRFv9Yv3jP https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: WORLDS GONE WRONG. [Place of publication not identified], MCFARLAND, 2018 147667180X (OCoLC)1029882099 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1874510 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Worlds gone awry : essays on dystopian fiction / Feminine subterfuge in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last / Megan E. Cannella -- "Forget sad things": Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian short fiction as social critique / Ashley G. Anthony -- "A secure but partly demented society": reconsidering human depravity in William Golding's Lord of the Flies / Natasha W. Vashisht -- Streets of spectrality: Kevin Barry's dystopian City of Bohane / Deirdre Flynn -- Interrogating utopia: on Colin Macinnes' Absolute Beginners / Andrew Hammond -- "What if I said that he's a god?": messianism in Cormac McCarthy's The Road / Wes Yeary -- "Maps and mazes": mapping as metaphor in postsecular America / Harold K. Bush -- Unmasking the deception: the hermeneutic of suspicion in Lois Lowry's The Giver / C. Clark Triplett and John J. Han -- Ending dystopia: the feminist critique of culture in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy / Jane Beal -- Commodifying the revolution: dystopian young adult literature and cultural critique / Jillian L. Canode -- Dystopia, competition and reality television tropes in The Bachman Books: "The Long Walk" and "The Running Man" / Alissa Burger -- Stranger than fiction: locating the digital dystopia in contemporary fiction / Robyn N. Rowley -- Disembodied heads and headless philosophies: C.S. Lewis' aesthetic rejoinder to dystopian utility in that hideous strength / Matthew Bardowell -- The creation of the future from remnants of the past: order from disorder in William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash / Melanie A. Marotta -- The future is white, the future is undead: reframing the American vampire dystopia in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain Trilogy / Simon Bacon -- Here's looking at you, kids: the urgency of dystopian texts in the secondary classroom / Michael A. Soares. Dystopias in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96002302 Essay. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044913 Dystopias. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040350 Dystopies dans la littérature. Essai (Genre littéraire) Dystopies. dystopias. aat LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Composition & Creative Writing. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Rhetoric. bisacsh REFERENCE Writing Skills. bisacsh Dystopias fast Dystopias in literature fast Essay fast |
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| topic | Dystopias in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96002302 Essay. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044913 Dystopias. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040350 Dystopies dans la littérature. Essai (Genre littéraire) Dystopies. dystopias. aat LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Composition & Creative Writing. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Rhetoric. bisacsh REFERENCE Writing Skills. bisacsh Dystopias fast Dystopias in literature fast Essay fast |
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