Critical Insights: Dystopia

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781429837811

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme of dystopia and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On Dystopia.
Critical Contexts.
1: Critical Reception.
2: Ursula K. Le Guin's Critical Dystopias.
3: Totalitarian Technocracies.
4: Compare/Contrast: Media Culture, Conformism, and Commodification in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and M. T. Anderson's Feed.
Critical Readings.
5: Science, Politics, and Utopia in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
6: Need It All End in Tears? The Problem of Ending in Four Classic Dystopias.
7: “They Got Me a Long Time Ago”: The Sympathetic Villain in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451.
8: “The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore”: Overpopulation and Social Breakdown in Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!.
9: Rationalism, Revolution, and Utopia in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
10: The Meaning of “I” in Ayn Rand's Anthem.
11: Frontierism and Dystopian Representations of Home in F. Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants.
12: A Nineteen Eighty-Four for the Twenty-First Century: John Twelve Hawks's Fourth Realm Trilogy as Critical Dystopia.
13: This Edged Hymn: China Miéville within and against Dystopia.
14: 1983: Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
15: Future Almost Lost: Dystopian Science-Fiction Film.
Resources.
16: Additional Works on Dystopia.
17: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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Critical Insights: Dystopia

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