TY  - BOOK
AU  - Booker,M.Keith
TI  - Dystopia
T2  - Critical insights
SN  - 9781429837330
AV  - PN 56 .D94 D97 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ipswich, Mass.
PB  - Salem Press
KW  - Dystopias in literature
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Science fiction films
KW  - Literature and society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-281) and index; On dystopia; M. Keith Booker --; Critical contexts; Critical reception; Derek Thiess; Ursula K. Le Guin's critical dystopias; Raffaella Baccolini; Totalitarian technocracies; Thomas Horan; Compare/contrast: media culture, conformism, and commodification in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and M. T. Anderson's Feed; M. Keith Booker --; Critical readings; Science, politics, and utopia in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four; Tony Burns; Need it all end in tears? The problem of ending in four classic dystopias; Andrew Milner; "They got me a long time ago": the sympathetic villain in Nineteen eighty-four, Brave new world, and Fahrenheit 451; Rafeeq O. McGiveron; "The; wretched refuse of your teeming shore": overpopulation and social breakdown in Harry Harrison's Make room! Make room!; Brian Ireland; Rationalism, revolution, and utopia in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We; Peter G. Stillman; The; meaning of "I" in Ayn Rand's Anthem; Aaron Weinacht; Frontierism and dystopian representations of home in F. Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The space merchants; Enrica Picarelli; A; Nineteen eighty-four for the twenty-first century: John Twelve Hawks's Fourth realm trilogy as critical dystopia; Alexander Charles Oliver Hall; This edged hymn: China Mi�eville within and against dystopia; Sandy Rankin; 1983: Cory Doctorow's Little brother; Susan L. Stewart; Future almost lost: dystopian science-fiction film; Sean Redmond
N2  - To be dystopian, a work needs to foreground the oppressive society in which it is set, using that setting as an opportunity to comment in a critical way on some other society, typically that of the author and/or the audience. In other worlds, the bleak dystopian world should encourage the reader or viewer to think critically about it, then to transfer this critical thinking to his or her own world. This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. --from publisher description
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