Character And Dystopia
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Character And Dystopia
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Author : Aaron S. Rosenfeld
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-08
Character And Dystopia written by Aaron S. Rosenfeld and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nathanael West’s A Cool Million, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years, and Maggie Shen King’s An Excess Male, showing how in the 20th and 21st centuries dystopian nostalgia shades into reactionary humanism, a last stand mounted in defense of forms of subjectivity no longer supported by modernity. Unlike most work on dystopia that emphasizes dystopia’s politics, this book’s approach grows out of questions of poetics: What are the formal structures by which dystopian character is constructed? How do dystopian characters operate differently than other characters, within texts and upon the reader? What is the relation between this character and other forms of literary character, such as are found in romantic and modernist texts? By reading character as crucial to the dystopian project, the book makes a case for dystopia as a sensitive register of modern anxieties about subjectivity and its portrayal in literary works.
Dystopia Revelations
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Author : D. J. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Dystopia Revelations written by D. J. Cooper and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with categories.
Dystopia: Revelations A Character Novel Rita is plunged into a river, battered and drowning. Her son in the grips of the very madwoman who did this to her and no memory of her past. How can she survive? Stumbling into a refugee camp thinking she is saved, her supposed saviors only seek the information locked in a memory forgotten. Stronger than she thought she could be, determined to reach her son, the secrets of the Reset are revealed. Those who thought her long dead, find revelation in her emergence and betrayal in their midst.
The Prometheus Prophecy
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Author : D. F. Wink
language : en
Publisher: Story Artist via PublishDrive
Release Date : 2019-06-17
The Prometheus Prophecy written by D. F. Wink and has been published by Story Artist via PublishDrive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with Fiction categories.
I AM AN OUTLAW. Once, I was a global citizen: manipulated, medic by day, ecstasy, parties, drugs and entertainment by night. I have been living a lie. During a terror attack in London, I stopped to give medical care—and was kidnapped. Behind the border, I discovered a wild world of Outer Areas, the woman I once loved and still do, an outlaw army of crazy fanatics, and the corrupt Global Peace Army equipped with exoskeletons and drones, hiding unspeakable secrets about the entire world—and my role in it. My name is Adama. All I wanted to do was to find her. To find redemption. But they call me Prometheus. Because I have ignited a fire that is about to consume the entire world. ★★★★★ "Nothing like you think it is going to be, but way way better." "That's the kind of stories I look for and this book, DELIVERS!!!!!" "A real page-turner, unapologetic and fascinating. The kind of book you cannot put down and will find you re-reading all over again." THE PROMETHEUS PROPHECY by D. F. Wink is a near future techno thriller – book one in an exhilarating dystopian trilogy. It depicts a dystopian society with a cast of unique characters, epic settings, historical battles and a mixture of science and mythology. If you are looking for your next, much darker, Hunger Games, then get Book 1 of the Prometheus Trilogy.
Role Of Women In Utopian And Dystopian Novels
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Author : Jelena Vukadinovic
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-05
Role Of Women In Utopian And Dystopian Novels written by Jelena Vukadinovic and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with categories.
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: Being a great lover of mythological tales since childhood, I have early discovered that certain traits and patterns of behaviour were usually ascribed to certain gender roles. Yet even within the roles of the respective genders, considerable differences were to be found. Those who shared many characteristics tended to end in similar ways. Strong and capable Penthesilea ends dead on the battlefield of Troy and her corpse is raped by Achilles. Atalanta, who beats male heroes in great adventures is tricked into marriage against her will, by an offended goddess and a man who is not her equal. Helen's beauty has the power to launch thousand ships. Yet Helen herself is only a toy for men and gods. Penelope sits and weaves for twenty years waiting for her husband to return from a Trojan war while he is pursued and seduced by enchantresses. The more I read, in mythology and other fiction, the more often I discovered some endlessly repeating characteristics and patterns of behaviour of diverse roles. During my studies I became very interested in gender roles in Anglo-American literature, again particularly in those of female characters. Female roles in literature were always the more interesting to me when read from the background of the historical period in which they were created. Some of those fictional characters reflected the roles women were expected to fill at that particular age and geographical area. Others again were bad examples and warnings of what happens to women who do not fit into socially accepted roles. Once in a while a heroine would rise above the expected roles yet in the end she would return to the domestic area in which she was expected to be, or she would be destroyed. Of course there were always exceptions. Yet the first permanent and recognisable change of such roles in literature beco
Master Class
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Author : Christina Dalcher
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Master Class written by Christina Dalcher and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Fiction categories.
From the critically-acclaimed author of the international bestseller VOX comes a suspenseful new novel that examines a disturbing near future where harsh realities follow from unreachable standards. It’s impossible to know what you will do… Every child's potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and attend a top tier school with a golden future. Score too low, and it's off to a federal boarding school with limited prospects afterwards. The purpose? An improved society where education costs drop, teachers focus on the more promising students, and parents are happy. When your child is taken from you. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's elite schools. When her nine-year-old daughter bombs a monthly test and her Q score drops to a disastrously low level, she is immediately forced to leave her top school for a federal institution hundreds of miles away. As a teacher, Elena thought she understood the tiered educational system, but as a mother whose child is now gone, Elena's perspective is changed forever. She just wants her daughter back. And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen.
The Story Grid
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Author : Shawn Coyne
language : en
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Release Date : 2015-05-02
The Story Grid written by Shawn Coyne and has been published by Black Irish Entertainment LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-02 with Reference categories.
WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult). The Story Grid is a tool with many applications: 1. It will tell a writer if a Story ?works? or ?doesn't work. 2. It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a Story (not the person creating the Story'the Story) has failed. 3. It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that Story's problems. 4. It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer. 5. It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.
George Orwell S Dystopian World Nineteen Eighty Four And The Pragmatics Of Mis Understanding
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Author : Mansour Khelifa
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-01-25
George Orwell S Dystopian World Nineteen Eighty Four And The Pragmatics Of Mis Understanding written by Mansour Khelifa and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Occupying a central position in the political inner debate of Winston Smith, the main character in Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is the following statement/promise/threat: “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness” (25). This cryptic illocutionary speech act is initially heard by Winston in a dream, then is distinctly associated with, and equivocally reiterated, later on in the novel, by O’Brien who embodies, at the same time, the main character’s ideological mentor, intellectual tormentor and physical torturer. As the story unfolds, the initially promising trope, “the place where there is no darkness,” becomes more and more of a sibylline utterance representing a locus of (mis)understanding and a space of radical misreading. The representation of this place is stripped of its dream-like, metaphorical significance and reveals a dark, deictic and literal meaning. “[T]he place where there is no darkness” turns out the infamous Room 101, which is precisely the opposite of what it initially passes for, that is, a ‘utopian’ space of enlightenment. On the contrary, Room 101 is a ‘dystopian’ place, in the novel, where the light is deliberately never switched off as a torture inflicted upon political dissidents like Winston Smith. Likewise, the story line seems to operate a series of ironical degradations such as utopia becoming dystopia; metaphor dwindling into synecdoche; and euphemism signalling a glaring “statement” (25) charged with a sense of utter (mis)understanding, foreboding and warning, culminating in the irreversible destruction of the main character. Winston’s revolutionary dream of a better world turns into a horrible nightmare full of equivocation and despair. The mutual (mis)understanding between Winston and O’Brien leads to complete brainwash and emasculation of the former. Winston’s political resistance to, and hate of, Big Brother’s regime are annihilated, his dream is shattered. The story ends with Winston being ultimately defeated, ironically depicted as follows: “[h]e had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (297); whereas at the beginning of the narrative he has emphatically written in his secret diary in distinct capital letters: “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (18).
Feed
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Author : M. T. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2010-05-11
Feed written by M. T. Anderson and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.
Critical Theory And Dystopia
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Author : Patricia McManus
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Critical Theory And Dystopia written by Patricia McManus and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Philosophy categories.
Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological work these dark imaginings perform, the book reconstructs the historical emergence, consolidation and transformation of the genre across the twentieth century and into our own, ranging from Yevgeny Zamayatin’s We (1924) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) to Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1963) and Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series (2000s and 2010s). In doing so, it reveals the political logics opened up or neutered by the successive moments of this dystopian history.
The Language Of Dystopia
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Author : Jessica Norledge
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-29
The Language Of Dystopia written by Jessica Norledge and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice. Drawing upon stylistic, cognitive-poetic and narratological approaches, the work proposes a stylistic profile of dystopia, arguing for a reader-led discussion of genre that takes into account reader subjectivity and personal conceptualisations of prototypicality. In examining and identifying those aspects of language that characterise dystopian narratives and the experience of reading dystopian fictions, the work discusses in particular the manipulation and construction of dystopian languages, the conceptualisation of dystopian worlds, the reading of dystopian minds, the projection of dystopian ethics, the unreliability of dystopian refraction, and the evolution and hybridity of the dystopian genre.