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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide

Autor Prof. M. Keith Booker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mai 1994 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dystopian literature depicts the flaws and failures of imaginative societies. Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal. This reference overviews dystopian theory and summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian works.By reviewing the critical thought of particular dystopian theorists, the beginning of the volume provides a theoretical context for the remainder of the book. Because dystopian literature is so closely related to utopian writing, the reference profiles and discusses eight important utopian works. The rest of the book includes entries for numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films. Each entry summarizes the work and discusses dystopian themes. The entries include short bibliographies, with full bibliographic information provided at the end of the volume. This comprehensive guide covers the full period from Thomas More's Utopia to the present day.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313291159
ISBN-10: 0313291152
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

M. KEITH BOOKER is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He has written several books on contemporary literature, including The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (Greenwood Press, 1994).

Cuprins

IntroductionA Guide to Selected Modern Cultural Criticism with Relevance to Dystopian LiteratureA Guide to Selected Utopian FictionsDystopian FictionA Guide to Selected Dystopian DramaA Guide to Selected Dystopian FilmsBibliographyIndex