Worlds gone awry : essays on dystopian fiction
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476671802
- ISBN: 147667180X
- ISBN: 9781476633770
- ISBN: 1476633770
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 252 pages)
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Computer data. - Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., [2018]
- Copyright: �2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString.october.23 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Feminine subterfuge in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last / Megan E. Cannella -- "Forget sad things": Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian short fiction as social critique / Ashley G. Anthony -- "A secure but partly demented society": reconsidering human depravity in William Golding's Lord of the Flies / Natasha W. Vashisht -- Streets of spectrality: Kevin Barry's dystopian City of Bohane / Deirdre Flynn -- Interrogating utopia: on Colin Macinnes' Absolute Beginners / Andrew Hammond -- "What if I said that he's a god?": messianism in Cormac McCarthy's The Road / Wes Yeary -- "Maps and mazes": mapping as metaphor in postsecular America / Harold K. Bush -- Unmasking the deception: the hermeneutic of suspicion in Lois Lowry's The Giver / C. Clark Triplett and John J. Han -- Ending dystopia: the feminist critique of culture in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy / Jane Beal -- Commodifying the revolution: dystopian young adult literature and cultural critique / Jillian L. Canode -- Dystopia, competition and reality television tropes in The Bachman Books: "The Long Walk" and "The Running Man" / Alissa Burger -- Stranger than fiction: locating the digital dystopia in contemporary fiction / Robyn N. Rowley -- Disembodied heads and headless philosophies: C.S. Lewis' aesthetic rejoinder to dystopian utility in that hideous strength / Matthew Bardowell -- The creation of the future from remnants of the past: order from disorder in William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash / Melanie A. Marotta -- The future is white, the future is undead: reframing the American vampire dystopia in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain Trilogy / Simon Bacon -- Here's looking at you, kids: the urgency of dystopian texts in the secondary classroom / Michael A. Soares. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |