Character and dystopia : the last men /: the last men. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Character and dystopia : the last men /: the last men. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Character and dystopia : the last men
- Further Information:
- Note: Aaron S. Rosenfeld.
- Authors:
- Rosenfeld, Aaron S
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The Last Men in Europe 2 The Character of Dystopia The Language of Despair Realist Dystopia Setting and Character Setting as Character 3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dystopia The Good Place Anti-utopianism and Anti-utopias Dystopian Narrative Dystopian Law Post-apocalypse Future (Im)Perfect Section II De-forming Character 4 The Last (Hu)Man(ist) Humanism in Crisis Utopian and Dystopian Humanism and Anti-humanism Dystopianism, Naturalism, and Modernism Defensive Forms: Humanism, Anti-humanism, and the Dystopian Novel Dystopian Humanism Dystopian Anti-humanism 5 Anti-Bildungsroman: Dystopia and the End of Character in Zamyatin, Burgess, and Ishiguro The Novel of De-formation Allegories of Progress Divine Minus: Zamyatin’s Reverse Bildungsroman The Predator’s Progress: Burgess’s Satiric Bildungsroman Crimes Against Posthumanity: Ishiguro’s Bildungsroman Incarnate 6 Paranoid Plots: Dystopia and the Fantasy of Centrality in Dostoevsky and Orwell Romantic Paranoia Paranoid Poetics "Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent" Diseased Romanticism: Dostoevsky’s Psychological Dystopia He Loved Big Brother: Orwell and the Fantasy of Persecution Section III Dystopian Variations 7 American Anti-pastoral: Running Down a Dream in West and Mamet Dystopian Design What Happens to a Dream Deformed? West’s World: Dystopian Picaresque in West’s A Cool Million Utopian Plots: Dystopian Capitalism in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross 8 Romancing the Child:1 Introduction: The Last Men in Europe 2 The Character of Dystopia The Language of Despair Realist Dystopia Setting and Character Setting as Character 3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dystopia The Good Place Anti-utopianism and Anti-utopias Dystopian Narrative Dystopian Law Post-apocalypse Future (Im)Perfect Section II De-forming Character 4 The Last (Hu)Man(ist) Humanism in Crisis Utopian and Dystopian Humanism and Anti-humanism Dystopianism, Naturalism, and Modernism Defensive Forms: Humanism, Anti-humanism, and the Dystopian Novel Dystopian Humanism Dystopian Anti-humanism 5 Anti-Bildungsroman: Dystopia and the End of Character in Zamyatin, Burgess, and Ishiguro The Novel of De-formation Allegories of Progress Divine Minus: Zamyatin’s Reverse Bildungsroman The Predator’s Progress: Burgess’s Satiric Bildungsroman Crimes Against Posthumanity: Ishiguro’s Bildungsroman Incarnate 6 Paranoid Plots: Dystopia and the Fantasy of Centrality in Dostoevsky and Orwell Romantic Paranoia Paranoid Poetics "Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent" Diseased Romanticism: Dostoevsky’s Psychological Dystopia He Loved Big Brother: Orwell and the Fantasy of Persecution Section III Dystopian Variations 7 American Anti-pastoral: Running Down a Dream in West and Mamet Dystopian Design What Happens to a Dream Deformed? West’s World: Dystopian Picaresque in West’s A Cool Million Utopian Plots: Dystopian Capitalism in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross 8 Romancing the Child: First Teens in Lowry’s The Giver and Butler’s Parable of the Sower First Teens New Worlds for Old Desires A Family Affair: Romantic Humanism in Lowry’s The Giver On the Road Again: Anti-romantic Anti-humanism in Butler’s Earthseed 9 Epilogue: The Dystopian Real … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 809.93372
Dystopias in literature - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000173192
9781000173154
9781000173178
9780367823108 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367422752
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