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Special Dystopia
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Author : Alli Ferguson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-10-30
Special Dystopia written by Alli Ferguson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-30 with categories.
Special Dystopia
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Author : Alli Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2021-12-28
Special Dystopia written by Alli Ferguson and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-28 with Fiction categories.
Generations have come and gone after a catastrophic event wiped all civilization from the earth. The only survivors banding together to create the Community, or so they thought. Addie Smith and Samantha Cross take it upon themselves to keep Sam’s sister, Katie, safe in a Community raised to fear those with Special abilities. They seem destined to expose the dark underbelly and corruption of the supreme leader, Chancellor Matthias, with some help from some unlikely sources.
Violence And Dystopia
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Author : Daniel Cojocaru
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-18
Violence And Dystopia written by Daniel Cojocaru and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson’s film The Machinist (2004). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Walking the streets of London the pedestrian represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home, and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003), and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006).
7 Best Short Stories Dystopia
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Author : H. G. Wells
language : en
Publisher: Tacet Books
Release Date : 2020-05-12
7 Best Short Stories Dystopia written by H. G. Wells and has been published by Tacet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Fiction categories.
Dystopian fiction- sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature - is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. The critic August Nemo selected seven classic tales of dystopian scenarios. - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster - The Answer by H. Beam Piper - The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel - The Empire of the Ants by H.G. Wells - In The Year 2889 by Jules Verne - The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers - Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
The Dystopia Game
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Author : Adam Wodyk
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-07-03
The Dystopia Game written by Adam Wodyk and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with categories.
"Boundlessly creative and entirely unique." -Self-Publishing Review Distant future. Max Stranger is a teenage actor in Emperial - the largest of the Seven Metropolises. It might seem that his life has played out perfectly; he signed a movie contract and has a girlfriend. And that would be true if it weren't for the fact that he is starring in film productions in which everything happens for real. Like the other Actors, he is sedated before every scene so that the film coordinators can turn on an artificial consciousness hidden in a special nanochip in his brain. The Actors call this consciousness the Movie Character. When Max starts to play the role, coordinators send thoughts to the nanochip, forcing the Character to do everything that the script requires. He never knows what kind of scenario the filmmakers may set up for him. Will he die or kill someone in the next scene? The worst comes when Max and his girlfriend, Lara, are drawn by the ruthless autarch into a dangerous cinematographic experiment called the Seven Players series, which will be filmed in the mutant-infested outer wilderness. Thrusted by the filmmakers into the mysterious place filled with unknown energy, Max discovers a terrible behind-the-scenes truth... Packed with action, mystery and suspense from page one, this post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller is driven by compelling characters placed in impossible situations. Previously published as Seven Players. Reader Reviews "This book was so exciting! I don't believe that I've ever read anything quite like this." -Goodreads reviewer "Fast paced and feels like you're in the story! It is a post-apocalyptic, science fiction, and fantasy type of book, but it is unlike any other in its genre."-Amazon reviewer "A sci-fi drama that will leave you at the edge of your seat with much excitement."-Goodreads reviewer "A really engaging thriller." -Goodreads reviewer "While the book has some common elements like mind control, nano chips, and mutants, the plot itself was unpredictable."-Amazon reviewer "Being that I am not a sci-fi fanatic myself, I was hesitant to give this a read. To my surprise, I was so invested in the story, I was able to complete it in one sitting."-Amazon reviewer "The synopsis had me thinking it might be an attempt to copy The Hunger Games series, but this book was incredibly different." -Goodreads reviewer "It has Ready Player One tones, but is unique in its plot-I definitely recommend it!" -Amazon reviewer "A read experience that takes you along with the characters; danger, fear, and hope."-Amazon reviewer "The book concentrates on a post-apocalyptic world where actors are controlled by AI. They are thrust into a live TV show that looks scripted where only their wit and commonsense can make them outsmart the danger." -Amazon reviewer "Super original and thrilling!" -Amazon reviewer "This book is a sci-fi, drama, and romance built into one and the way it's constructed is so fascinating with a surprise on every page so, it's sure tough to stop reading."-Amazon reviewer "Max Stranger is a very intriguing character, always on the hunt for answers and very astute." -Amazon reviewer "If you are interested in a thought-provoking, dystopian story then this is the book for you."-Amazon reviewer
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 S Provocateurs
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Author : Edyta Materka
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-09
Dystopia S Provocateurs written by Edyta Materka and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-09 with History categories.
Oral histories on life in the eastern German region annexed by Poland following World War II. Toward the end of the Second World War, Poland’s annexation of eastern German lands precipitated one of the largest demographic upheavals in European history. Edyta Materka travels to her native village in these “Recovered Territories,” where she listens carefully to rich oral histories told by original postwar Slavic settlers and remaining ethnic Germans who witnessed the metamorphosis of eastern Germany into western Poland. She discovers that peasants, workers, and elites adapted war-honed informal strategies they called “kombinacja” to preserve a modicum of local agency while surviving the vicissitudes of policy formulated elsewhere, from Stalinist collectivization to the shock doctrine of neoliberalism. Informality has taken many forms: as a way of life, a world view, an alternate historical text, a border memory, and a means of magical transformation during times of crisis. Materka ventures beyond conventional ethnography to trace the diverse historical, literary, and psychological dimensions of kombinacja. Grappling with the legacies of informality in her own transnational family, Materka searches for the “kombinator within” on the borderlands and shares her own memories of how the Polish diaspora found new uses for kombinacja in America. “Rare and exceptionally well-researched analysis of an invisible practice.” —Alena Ledeneva, University College London “Materka has produced an eloquently written, exciting, and meticulously analyzed ethnographic history that marks an alternative to the vast majority of strictly archival-based historical literature on the German-Polish borderlands. Within the field of Polish history, this book is also an important contribution as the first extensive work on the critical role of informality in the politics, society, and economy of People’s Poland.” —H-Poland “By concentrating on the local strategies of combination in the areas of uprootedness, Materka has made an interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of human behavior. References and the use of Polish words for important concepts are exemplary. . . . [H]er collection of narratives provides food for thought on the relation between formal regulation and human ingenuity.” —Baltic Worlds
No Place Else
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Author : Eric S. Rabkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
No Place Else written by Eric S. Rabkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
Writers have created fictions of social perfection at least since Plato’s Republic. Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intellectual history a name when he called his contribution to it Utopia, Greek for no place. With each subsequent author cognizant of his predecessors and subject to altered real-world conditions which suggest ever-new causes for hope and alarm, “no place” changed. The fourteen essays presented in this book critically assess man’s fascination with and seeking for “no place.” “In discussing these central fictions, the contributors see ‘no place’ from diverse perspectives: the sociological, the psychological, the political, the aesthetic. In revealing the roots of these works, the contributors cast back along the whole length of utopian thought. Each essay stands alone; together, the essays make clear what ‘no place’ means today. While it may be true that ‘no place’ has always seemed elsewhere or elsewhen, in fact all utopian fiction whirls contemporary actors through a costume dance no place else but here.”—from the Preface The contributors are Eric S. Rabkin, B. G. Knepper, Thomas J. Remington, Gorman Beauchamp, William Matter, Ken Davis, Kenneth M. Roemer, William Steinhoff, Howard Segal, Jack Zipes, Kathleen Woodward, Merritt Abrash, and James W. Bittner.
After The End Dystopia Box Set 34 Dystopias And Post Apocalyptic Works
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Author : Edgar Allan Poe
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-18
After The End Dystopia Box Set 34 Dystopias And Post Apocalyptic Works written by Edgar Allan Poe and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-18 with Fiction categories.
This meticulously edited dark future collection includes the greatest dystopian novels and post-apocalyptic stories - for you to compare with your own prediction based on present events: George Orwell: 1984 Animal Farm Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here C. S. Lewis: That Hideous Strength Yevgeny Zamyatin: We Jack London: Iron Heel H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The First Men in the Moon When the Sleeper Wakes Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race Edgar Allan Poe: The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality Mary Shelley: The Last Man William Hope Hodgson: The Night Land Stanley G. Weinbaum: The Black Flame Fred M. White: The Doom of London Series The Four White Days The Four Days' Night The Dust of Death A Bubble Burst The Invisible Force The River of Death Ignatius Donnelly: Caesar's Column Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur Dudley Vinton: Looking Further Backward Richard Jefferies: After London Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Anthony Trollope: The Fixed Period Cleveland Moffett: The Conquest of America
Nordic Utopias And Dystopias
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Author : Pia Maria Ahlbäck
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-11-24
Nordic Utopias And Dystopias written by Pia Maria Ahlbäck and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Nordic countries have long been subject to certain idealised, even utopian imaginaries, particularly with regard to images of pristine nature and the societal ideals of democracy, equality and education. On the other hand, such projections inevitably invite dissent, irony and intimations of the utopia’s dark underside. Things may yet take, or may have already taken, a dystopic course. The present volume offers twelve contributions on utopias and dystopias in Nordic literature and culture. Geographically, the articles cover the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as the autonomous area of Greenland. Through the articles’ varied subjects — ranging from avant-garde literature and long poems to noir TV-series, young adult fiction, popular historiography, and political discourse in literature outside of Norden — the volume brings forth a historically rich, multi-layered picture of social, cultural and environmental imagination in the Nordic countries. Nordic Utopias and Dystopias is thus of interest not only to specialists in dystopian and utopian research but more broadly to scholars of literature and culture, and the political and social sciences, especially but not exclusively in the Nordic context.