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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"dystopia"”.
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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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A Crypt within a Dystopia
This project is about our social denial of death, the questioning of rationality and utopian ideals, and our fears of modernity. The intimate connection once associated with death has been hidden. In this project the remains of the dead are sacred. Death is brought to the forefront. By …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
The following study investigates German dystopian literature. Until now, such literature has been subsumed under the much broader and poorly defined utopian genre. As a result, German dystopianism has not yet been identified as a coherent cultural phenomenon. A primary aim of the project is …
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Maintaining Portland’s progressive dystopia: Crisis, carcerality, and the real estate state
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Reading young adult dystopia. Analysing teenage readers’ portrayals of discursive positions about rebellion in young adult dystopia in a mixed-methods research design combining grounded theory methodology and situational analysis
… Back in 2013, a book genre called "Young Adult Dystopia" (YA Dystopia) became very popular. Books that were labelled as this new genre sold many millions of book copies worldwide. Remarkably, there is a lack of research that focusses on readers’ perspectives on reading YA Dystopia. Many female …
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Anadem An Exploration of Queer Representation and Dress in Young Adult (YA) Dystopia
… element, this thesis explores Young Adult (YA) Dystopia’s problematic preference for portraying its ruling classes as queer coded and over-indulgent. Within the creative element I explore how and why a fictional dystopian world order might result in its ruling class adopting a queer …
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Producing Public Space in Barranquilla Colombia, (2000-2020). Between Urban Utopia and Dystopia
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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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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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… and also exemplifies the shift from utopia to dystopia. The last section of the thesis deals with the work of Kurt Vonnegut and includes an interview with that author. The twentieth century has seen the proliferation of dystopias, portraits of the disastrous consequences of the headlong pursuit …
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Formed by fire : a mountaineering basecamp at the pine plantation in the dystopia of Cecilia Forest
I am a mountaineer. I hike, I climb, I camp (mostly without a tent, unless it snows of course). It has been a serious hobby since I was a Boy Scout at the age of fourteen. At the beginning of the year, I saw an opportunity to add a personal touch through experience and interest in order to better …
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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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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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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
… relationship between the Gothic tradition and Dystopian novels in order to illuminate new perspective on the body in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962), …
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Weaving feminism, pragmatism, and distance education
… theory and practice, and finally to a possible dystopia and utopia for DE, this dissertation investigates the rich representations at the intersection of feminism, pragmatism, and web based distance education. It is composed of three parts. The first part is the construction of a …
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Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
… subconscious. Both texts reflect a critical dystopia that speculates on human spirituality and offers a critique of society through a tour of sin and suffering in a desolate setting.</p>
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Space and *Representation in Chicago's Near West Side: A Discourse Analysis
Discourses of eutopia and dystopia act in unison to rationalize, justify and legitimate the hegemonic ideotopic renderings of neighborhood change and the pursuit of the objectives of a project that is transforming the inner city according to the material interests and ideological conceptions of …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… boundaries between the concepts of utopia and dystopia by analyzing how recent texts view the pillars of dystopian literature. Specifically, it investigates the discrepancy between the stance of Neil Postman in <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em> …
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'Everything Looks Different up Close': Perception in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
… establishes the apocalypse as a problem of dystopian vision through the book's deeply flawed focalizer. In <em>The Year of the Flood</em> two alternative visions are offered in order to rehabilitate the perceptual problems of the first text. In the three chapters of this paper, I will …
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De-policing queer possibilities
<p>In the wake of a policed dystopia that is decreed by both state and social formations, this project develops an understanding of the performance and engagements of policing on racialized queer subjects. Through case and textual analysis, this project examines Black and Brown subjectivities that …
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Environmental empowerment: Gender, nature, agency, and violence in 21st-century ecofiction
… fears and hopes in a fictional futuristic dystopia./ Taken together, these texts display a mutually empowering relationship between women and nature in 21st-century woman-authored literature.
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