Critical theory and dystopia
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
ISBN-10
1526139758
ISBN-13
9781526139757
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 26th, 2024
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
344 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.40 x 1.70 cms
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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adorno’s work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adorno’s critique of modernity. -- .
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 Zamyatin’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. -- .
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