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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Dystopias"”.
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Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion
… emergence or function of anarchism in critical dystopias. My objective is not so ambitious; my aim is to plot the evolution of each rebellion within its own context. In the end, I hope to broaden an understanding of Anarchy and Anarchism: not an understanding that congeals and grows more rigid, …
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… thus designates the creation of narrative dystopias that not only ironically recycle Orientalist configurations of things Arab but also implicate both authors and readers in an ultimately self-parodic re-assessment of the Arab exotic. The strategic exoticization of Arab otherness in these …
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Fear of the Future: A Speculative Exploration of Cinematic Dystopias
… of an unrecognizable Earth. But what if dystopias are actually allegorical devices warning of the long-term effects of social controls like criminalization as well as reflections on current socio-political conditions? The aim of this study was to explore cinematic dystopias and their …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… 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 and John Savage. Young adult authors …
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Space and *Representation in Chicago's Near West Side: A Discourse Analysis
… the mobilization of discursive eutopias and dystopias in the forging of understandings of social relationships and spatial practices in the inner city has transposed racist and classist ideological elements onto the built environment.
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
<p>This thesis examines science fiction dystopias in which the vestiges of humanist philosophy taint the construction of posthuman subjects. With a grounding in the tenets of both humanist and posthumanist philosophy, I analyze eight works of science fiction that depict artificial intelligence, …
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Decolonizing the YA North: Environmental Injustice in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans
<p>Young Adult (YA) dystopias, in recent years, have imagined a future world fueled by the overuse and misuse of technology, the advancement of science for human gain, as well as societies ruled by governments that govern based on their own self-interests and economic gain. Such novels have opened …
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Orwell's Unmediated Hand: The Compositional Stages of Nineteen Eighty-Four
… great cautionary sociological and political dystopias of the postwar era. Over the last sixty years, literary critics have thoroughly studied the plot, setting, characters, themes, scenes, subliminal meanings, and overt meanings of this text. However, very few critics have utilized one of the …
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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
… but that they share common ground as Gothic Dystopias. While the focus is on bodily concerns in these novels, it is also pertinent to offer a discussion of past critical perspectives on the Dystopia and this is undertaken in Chapter One. Chapter Two looks at the narrative structure of the …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
… photo anthologies. As my research shows, German dystopias are characterised by a set of recurring themes: massification and the end of the individual, the (social) engineer or technocrat, anti-rationalism, and technology. The genre turns against the progressivist optimism of the nineteenth …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… twentieth century has seen the proliferation of dystopias, portraits of the disastrous consequences of the headlong pursuit of science and technology, unallied to human values. Huxley and Vonnegut crystallised the fears of a modern generation: that we create a soulless, mechanised, urban …
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Transparent cultures: Imagined users and the politics of software design (1975-2012)
… of transparent design. In cyberpunk’s dystopias, transparency reifies technocratic power, granting only a small number of corporate actors control over computation. While critics have argued that Gibson and Sterling strive to make information systems visible, I argue that their hackers …
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Story of the Tierra Psycho
<p>A novel that speculates on what would happen if a green sky appeared and all known electrical power stopped. The characters must move to survive as wild fires rage the mesa, wilderness, and riverside landscape.</p>
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Metal music as critical dystopia : humans, technology and the future in 1990s science fiction metal
Metal Music as Critical Dystopia: Humans, Technology and the Future in 1990s Science Fiction Metal seeks to demonstrate that the dystopian elements in metal music are not merely or necessarily a sonic celebration of disaster. Rather, metal music's fascination with dystopian imagery is often …
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Hive city
This thesis contains two parts: a craft paper 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 …
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
This thesis traces the inter-relation between human/machine hybrid figures, imagination and “human” subjectivity through the early science fiction of H. G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, E. M. Forster's “The Machine Stops” and Karel Čapek's R.U.R.. It demonstrates how the “human” operates in a state …
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Lucille excerpts
The thesis titled “Lucille Excerpts” by Graicen O’Neal Hixson contains two parts. The first is a ten-page craft paper analyzing worldbuilding within three novels: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The craft paper uses the book …
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Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed
<p>Author's abstract: Resourcefully and responsibly obtaining a sense of power is central to quality young adult literature. Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed show their adolescent protagonists' struggles with identity formation, consumerism, and the adult world. In order to …
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