The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as by M. Keith Booker

By M. Keith Booker

While literary utopias depict an incredible society and replicate an positive trust within the triumph of humanity and govt, dystopias current a society marked by way of pain brought on by human and political evils. This publication bargains an in depth learn of a number of literary dystopias and analyzes them as social feedback. the amount starts off with a dialogue of utopias, dystopias, and social feedback. via drawing upon the theories of Freud, Nietzsche, and others, Booker units a company theoretical starting place for the literary explorations that stick to. The chapters that come subsequent talk about Zamyatin's We, Huxley's Brave New World, and Orwell's 1984 as social feedback of totalitarianism, Stalinism, the risks of capitalism, and fascism. Later chapters ponder dystopias after international battle II, modern communist dystopias, and postmodernist dystopias within the West.

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