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The dystopian impulse in modern literature : fiction as social criticism

Author: M Keith Booker
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 58
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: M Keith Booker
ISBN: 031329092X 9780313290923
OCLC Number: 29312461
Description: 197 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Utopia, dystopia, and social critique -- Zamyatin's We : anticipating Stalin -- Huxley's Brave new world : the early bourgeois dystopia -- Orwell's 1984 : the totalitarian dystopia after Stalin -- The bourgeois dystopia after World War II -- Postmodernism with a Russian accent : the contemporary communist dystopia -- Skepticism squared : Western postmodernist dystopias -- Postscript: Literature and dystopia
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 58
Responsibility: M. Keith Booker.

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