Dystopian Circles

Author : Sharon R. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443864435

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Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction by Sharon R. Wilson Pdf

Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction explores the genres of utopian and dystopian recent fiction. It is about how this literature of both imagined perfection and disaster creates new worlds and critiques gender roles, traditions, and values. Essays range in subject matter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, P. D. James, Joanna Russ, and Marge Piercy, to Ursula Le Guin, Fay Weldon, and Toni Morrison. Two of the three sections focus on Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood. Examining especially the twentieth century, including second-wave feminism, writers from Tunisia, Turkey, Italy, Korea, the US, and England give both an historical and a global perspective. Utopian and dystopian elements are explored in the Nobel-Prize-winning Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor, the little-known Mara and Dann, and The Cleft; and new perspectives are offered on Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808608

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The Circle by Dave Eggers Pdf

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Author : Annika Gonnermann
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823394594

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Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction by Annika Gonnermann Pdf

Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction focuses on the relationship between literary dystopia, network power and neoliberalism, explaining why rebellion against a dystopian system is absent in so many contemporary dystopian novels. Also, this book helps readers understand modern power mechanisms and shows ways how to overcome them in our own daily lives.

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Percy Greg,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ernest Bramah,Jonathan Swift,Cleveland Moffett,William Morris,Anthony Trollope,Richard Jefferies,Samuel Butler,David Lindsay,Edward Everett Hale,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Edgar Wallace,Francis Bacon,Robert Cromie,Abraham Merritt,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,Stanley G. Weinbaum,Fred M. White,H. P. Lovecraft,Garrett P. Serviss,Henry Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Malcolm Jameson,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Otis Adelbert Kline,C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne,Edwin A. Abbott,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Gertrude Barrows Bennett,Hugh Benson,Margaret Cavendish,James Fenimore Coope
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 10710 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547671091

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SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Collection: 140+ Intergalactic Adventures, Dystopian Novels, Lost World Classics & Post-Apocalyptic Stories by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Percy Greg,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ernest Bramah,Jonathan Swift,Cleveland Moffett,William Morris,Anthony Trollope,Richard Jefferies,Samuel Butler,David Lindsay,Edward Everett Hale,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Edgar Wallace,Francis Bacon,Robert Cromie,Abraham Merritt,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,Stanley G. Weinbaum,Fred M. White,H. P. Lovecraft,Garrett P. Serviss,Henry Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Malcolm Jameson,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Otis Adelbert Kline,C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne,Edwin A. Abbott,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Gertrude Barrows Bennett,Hugh Benson,Margaret Cavendish,James Fenimore Coope Pdf

Good Press presents to you this unique Sci-Fi collection with carefully picked out stories from out of space, thrilling intergalactic adventures, dystopian novels and the greatest sci-fi classics: H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man... Edgar Wallace: Planetoid 127 The Green Rust... Otis Adelbert Kline: The Venus Trilogy The Mars Series Malcolm Jameson: Captain Bullard Series Garrett P. Serviss: Edison's Conquest of Mars A Columbus of Space The Sky Pirate... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Professor Challenger Series Jules Verne: 20.000 Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Last Man Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel The Scarlet Plague The Star Rover... Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land... Edgar Allan Poe: Some Words with a Mummy Mellonta Tauta... H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality... Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James Fenimore Cooper: The Monikins Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Fred M. White: The Doom of London Ignatius Donnelly: Caesar's Column Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur D. Vinton: Looking Further Backward Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom Cleveland Moffett: The Conquest of America Richard Jefferies: After London Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Stanley G. Weinbaum: Stories from the Solar System Edward Everett Hale: The Brick Moon Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster... Francis Bacon: New Atlantis C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Lost Continent Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Three Go Back

Author : Katy Wischow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
ISBN : 0325099049

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Dystopian Book Clubs by Katy Wischow Pdf

Make use of this popular genre to encourage students read.

Author : Jack London,Ernest Bramah,Sinclair Lewis,Anthony Trollope,Milo Hastings,Aldous Huxley,Francis Stevens,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,C. S. Lewis,George Orwell,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Hugh Benson,Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 3583 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547761563

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Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition by Jack London,Ernest Bramah,Sinclair Lewis,Anthony Trollope,Milo Hastings,Aldous Huxley,Francis Stevens,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,C. S. Lewis,George Orwell,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Hugh Benson,Yevgeny Zamyatin Pdf

This unique collection of "DYSTOPIA Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: 1984 (George Orwell) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) Iron Heel (Jack London) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory) Lord of the World (Hugh Benson) When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells) Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly) The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah) City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings) Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton) The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens) The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope) Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Author : Ágnes Heller,Riccardo Mazzeo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004410275

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Wind and Whirlwind: Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Literature and Philosophy by Ágnes Heller,Riccardo Mazzeo Pdf

In Wind and Whirlwind Ágnes Heller and Riccardo Mazzeo analyse utopias and dystopias in the works of philosophers and novelists and highlight the importance to find one's way avoiding the charming destructive traps.

Author : Milo Hastings
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547396017

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City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings Pdf

City of Endless Night (1919) is a dystopian novel which first appeared as the story "Children of Kultur" serialized in True Story Magazine in seven installments from May to November, 1919. The word kultur, German for culture, had been made infamous by Allied propaganda in World War I. Set in future of 1941, City of Endless Night anticipates the resurgence of Germany and the rise of fascism. Other highlights of its immense foresight are the idea of a rigidly controlled press, rise of Nazi religion, racial theories and Eugenic breeding. A Must Read! Milo Milton Hastings (1884–1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health.

Author : Saija Isomaa,Jyrki Korpua,Jouni Teittinen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527558724

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New Perspectives on Dystopian Fiction in Literature and Other Media by Saija Isomaa,Jyrki Korpua,Jouni Teittinen Pdf

This collection of essays examines various forms of dystopian fiction in literature, television, and digital games. It frames the timely trend of dystopian fiction as a thematic field that accommodates several genres from societal dystopia to apocalyptic narratives and climate fiction, many of them examining the hazards of science and technology to human societies and the ecosystem. These are genres of the Anthropocene par excellence, capturing the dilemmas of the human condition in the current, increasingly precarious epoch. The essays offer new interpretations of classical and contemporary works, including the canonised prose of Orwell, Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, modern pop culture classics like Battlestar Galactica, Fallout and Hunger Games, and the work of Johanna Sinisalo, a pioneer of Finnish speculative fiction. From Thomas Pynchon to Watership Down, the volume’s multifaceted approach offers fresh perspectives to those already familiar with existing research, but it is no less accessible for newcomers to the ever-expanding field of dystopian studies.

Author : Erika Gottlieb
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0773522069

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Dystopian Fiction East and West by Erika Gottlieb Pdf

"Erika Gottlieb explores a selection of about thirty works in the dystopian genre from East and Central Europe between 1920 and 1991 in the USSR and between 1948 and 1989 in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

Author : Ulrike Küchler,Silja Maehl,Graeme Stout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628921168

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Alien Imaginations by Ulrike Küchler,Silja Maehl,Graeme Stout Pdf

As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders. Offering a perspective on the alien that connects to scholarship on immigration and globalization, Alien Imaginations brings together canonical and contemporary works in the literature and cinema of science fiction and transnationalism. By examining the role of the alien through the themes of language, anxiety and identity, the essays in this collection engage with authors such as H.G. Wells, Eleanor Arnason, Philip K. Dick and Yoko Tawada as well as directors such as Neill Blomkamp, James Cameron and Michael Winterbottom. Focusing on works that are European and North American in origin, the readings in this volume explore their critical intent and their potential to undermine many of the central notions of Western hegemonic discourses. Alien Imaginations reflects upon contemporary cultural imaginaries as well as the realities of migration, labor and life, suggesting models of resistance, if not utopian horizons.

Author : Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000655285

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Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno Pdf

This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced approach of critical posthumanism, an overview of the narrative strategies used by the writers to explore the possibilities that biotechnology, digital technologies and cryonics open up to transcend our human limitations, while also warning their readers of their most nefarious consequences. Ultimately, the book puts forward the claim that even if the writers approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and using different narrative styles and techniques, they all share a critical posthumanist fear that an unrestrained and unquestioned use of technology for enhancement purposes may bring about disembodiment and dehumanization.

Author : Christine Lehnen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3828836844

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Defining Dystopia by Christine Lehnen Pdf

Author : Diana Q. Palardy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319928852

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The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film by Diana Q. Palardy Pdf

This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barceló, Ion de Sosa, José Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.

Author : Mark Doyle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498598682

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Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium by Mark Doyle Pdf

Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society. Tolkien’s works do this by creating utopian and dystopian longing while also rejecting the stilted conventions of most literary utopias and dystopias. Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium traces these utopian and dystopian motifs through a variety of Tolkien’s works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Book of Lost Tales, Leaf by Niggle,and some of his early poetry. The book analyzes Tolkien’s ideal and evil societies from a variety of angles: political and literary theory, the sources of Tolkien’s narratives, the influence of environmentalism and Catholic social doctrine, Tolkien’s theories about and use of myth, and finally the relationship between Tolkien’s politics and his theories of leadership. The book’s epilogue looks at Tolkien’s works compared to popular culture adaptations of his legendarium.