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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Orwellian"”.
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
… reorientations following the Second World War. Orwellian apprehensions over totalizing systems and theories serve as a common thread for otherwise wide-ranging novelistic engagements with politics in the postmodern, multicultural, and globalized contexts of postwar England.</p>
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"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em>
… threat manifests as the Alliance, a seemingly Orwellian government that rules from central worlds filled with vast cityscapes and seeks to impose its will upon the more agrarian outer worlds, who want to be free. With Tolkien, it is the ever industrializing Isengard and Mordor which serve as an …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… that <em>White Noise</em>, in fact, favors the Orwellian perspective. As opposed to <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em>, <em>White Noise</em> does not perceive the limitations of the form, or the innate human appetite for amusement for that matter, …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… importance to the genre’s more typically “Orwellian” themes like totalitarianism, propaganda, the Cold War, automation, censorship, and conformism. In contrast, my dissertation shows how dystopian fiction from this period develops in conversation with emerging conceptions of environmental …
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Newspeak and new media: contemporary Orwell in interactive environments
Almost seventy years after its publication, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a canonical work of twentieth-century British literature, preserves its relevance not only in relation to politics, but also in relation to its portrayal of the boundaries of the individual in an authoritarian state. …