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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Oryx and Crake"”.
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Exploring the New Front of the Culture War: <i>1984, Oryx and Crake,</i> and Cultural Hegemony
… a society that is a reaction to World War II and totalitarian regimes. This society depicts elements of cultural hegemony that are altered during the move to postmodernism. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake evolved to reflect the political climate that grew out of the Cold War’s end, while retaining the …
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'Everything Looks Different up Close': Perception in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
… suggests that the specific focalizers chosen, and their very different ways of perceiving the world around them, are central issues in the novels. In <em>Oryx and Crake</em>, Atwood establishes the apocalypse as a problem of dystopian vision through the book's deeply flawed focalizer. In …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… texts that 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 …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… her career, informing her fears about the future and providing the grounding for her speculative fiction. In Atwood’s understanding, ecological ruin stems from human estrangement from the natural environment, an estrangement fortified by capitalism and consumerism in contemporary societies. …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… her career, informing her fears about the future and providing the grounding for her speculative fiction. In Atwood’s understanding, ecological ruin stems from human estrangement from the natural environment, an estrangement fortified by capitalism and consumerism in contemporary societies. …