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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Dystopian fiction"”.
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
… in three of the most well known examples of dystopian fiction: George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. In these three novels, the protagonists take flight from the repressive dystopia and journey into nature. In the green world, the protagonists …
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Funneling chaos: Interiority in the landscapes of dystopian fiction
Dystopian fiction immerses readers in chaotic worlds where survival often hinges on understanding unspoken rules. Readers navigate these landscapes through the lens of the protagonist’s interiority. This thesis explores how interiority serves as a crucial narrative tool in dystopian literature, …
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The power & politics of naming: literary onomastics within dystopian fiction
… of onomastics in shaping the characteristics of dystopian literature. Texts of this genre are unique in regards to the authoritarian and controlling nature of some ruling force, with this power manifested in a variety of manners, all of which feature important onomoastic manipulation in their …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
<p>Young adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell's <em>1984</em> and Aldous Huxley's <em>Brave New World</em>, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith …
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“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… readers interact with novels in the Young Adult dystopian genre. I will examine the ways in which readers resist the dominant patriarchal ideological discourses in the YA dystopian novel and how readers submit to this ideology. Through an interaction with the text, the reader produces …
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"What if this really happened?" Using critical literacy practices and dystopian fiction to mediate self-efficacy with at-risk readers
… literacy practices were used in combination with dystopian fiction. Two published tools were used to gather information regarding students’ self-efficacy and identity as readers at the beginning of the study, student artifacts were collected and analyzed throughout the study, interviews with small …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… offers a reappraisal of twentieth-century dystopian fiction in the roughly thirty years after World War II by identifying the environmental dimensions of many of the most genre-defining authors and novels of this period. Given the escalating climate emergency and the growing popularity of …
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Hive city
… on interiority and four chapters of a new adult dystopian fiction novel. The craft paper focuses on interiority by conveying the protagonist’s unique perspective of the novel’s world by analyzing two dystopian fiction novels, No Coincidence by Rafał Kosik and Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan. Hive …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… straddle the line between literary and genre fiction go unrecognized for important innovations. After establishing the rules and conventions of dystopian fiction, the hardboiled detective novel, and the zombie apocalypse narrative, I attempt to show how three novels subvert these rules as a …
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A Translation with an Introduction of Paolo Zardi's XXI Secolo
… XXI Secolo is immediately familiar to readers of dystopian fiction: widespread poverty, major environmental degradation, the masses fighting to survive in a world on the brink of collapse. Yet, at its heart the novel is a story about love—the love of a husband and father who would do anything to …
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Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed
… fit within the theoretical framework of utopian/dystopian fiction illuminates their disparate approaches to the power struggles associated with the culture industry.</p>
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
… between The White Goddess and the tour seminal fictional works The Golden Fleece (1944), King Jesus (1946), The Golden Ass (1950) and Seven Days in New Crete (1949). Analysis of selected poems that also shed light on the interconnections between the four texts in the context of the poet-muse …