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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"dystopian"”.
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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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Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark"
… authors of young adult fiction have proliferated dystopian novels about disciplinary societies that conform to Michel Foucault’s Panoptic frameworks. Using the novels <em>Matched, Delirium, Uglies, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner,</em> and<em> The Knife of Never Letting Go,</em> this …
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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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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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Chronicle of confinement: A tale of Dystopian Chains and Utopian dreams
… the architectural symbolism embedded in both dystopian and utopian prison designs, reflecting societal values of control, oppression, freedom, and rehabilitation. By emphasizing the power of hope and imagination, this thesis provides a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between …
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Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England
… often through the creation of utopian and dystopian worlds, which either leads to their exilic identities and disempowerment or allows them to renegotiate their identities from the periphery to the center of power. The triadic relationship among the terms exile, knowledge, and power will be …
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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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Michel Foucault’s panopticism and dystopian discourses: the asymmetry of the gaze in philosophy and film /
This dissertation examines Michel Foucault’s concept of panopticism by considering its relationship with contemporary power relations and film mechanisms. By reconsidering the circumstances in which panoptic power dispositifs were established within the context of Foucault’s works, and by drawing …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… 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> and Don DeLillo in <em>White Noise</em> in situating the …
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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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''Auta minua saamaan lapsia, tai muuten minä kuolen!'' – Intertekstuaalinen analyysi Margaret Atwoodin Orjattaresi-dystopian Raamatun käytöstä naisten kontrolloimisen oikeuttamiseksi.
Kandidaatintutkielmassani tutkin Margaret Atwoodin The Handmaid’s tale-teoksen (1985, suom. Orjattaresi) intertekstuaalisuutta sekä erityisesti lainausta ’’Give me children, or else I die’’ (Gen. 30:1), joka esiintyy teoksessa useaan kertaan. Tutkimuksen lähtökohta on ymmärtää lainauksen merkitys …
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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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"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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Representations of Identity in Three 21st-Century Dystopian Novels: Omar El Akkad’s American War, Naomi Alderman’s The Power, and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
Esta tesis doctoral trata la relación dialéctica entre el individuo y la sociedad distópica neoliberal en la ficción distópica contemporánea que conlleva una construcción de la identidad social de los personajes. El proyecto analiza cómo los protagonistas evolucionan y se adaptan y cómo sus …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… 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 means to convey social commentary. Despite their novel approaches to the genres they work within, …
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