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Worlds Gone Awry : Essays on Dystopian Fiction

Anthony, Ashley G.(Edited by)Han, John J.(Edited by)Triplett, C. Clark(Edited by)
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Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own.

This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s.

Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.

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Product Details
McFarland & Co Inc
147667180X / 9781476671802
Paperback / softback
30/08/2018
United States
English
vii, 252 pages
23 cm