Worlds Gone Awry

Essays on Dystopian Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: ISBN: 9781476633770
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: August 22, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781476633770
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: August 22, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

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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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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