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Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780773569188
DOI
10.1515/9780773569188
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4534050 bytes)
Pages
352\334
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 21:14:56

Description

In Dystopian Fiction East and West Erika Gottlieb offers an original and comprehensive exploration of dystopian fiction. She discusses Western classics such as Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Zamiatin's We, all fictions that project expanded versions of the flaws of current society onto a hypothetical monster state in the future. These fictions work as prophetic warnings against a nightmare world that could, but should not be allowed to, come about.

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