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Dystopia

About: Dystopia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15163 citations. The topic is also known as: cacotopia.


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TL;DR: The tension between the Catholic monarchy of Camelot and Hank Morgan's Protestant, New England progressivism adds an interesting dimen- sion to the Manichean structure identifiable in Twain's fiction as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The gravest danger our Nation faces lies at the crossroads of radicalism and technology ~~~George W Bush It has been noted that Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court "portrays [two] supposed Utopias~~~the idyllic Camelot and the modern industrialized vision of the Yankee~~~as undesireable, unpleasant, and indeed truly dystopian" (Shanley and Stillman 274) The novel is, in fact, a narrative account of the violence that ensues when two absolutist world views come into conflict The two absolute worlds in the book~~~represented by Camelot, on the one hand, and by Hank Morgan, on the other~~~form the basis for Twain's critique of self-assured sociopolitical visions in general and of the apparently inevitable violence perpetrated in the interest of that which is "natural" and that which is "good" The tension between the Catholic monarchy of Camelot and Hank Morgan's Protestant, New England progressivism adds an interesting dimen- sion to the Manichean structure identifiable in Twain's fiction

5 citations

21 Nov 2018
TL;DR: Les sept contributions de ce catalogue offrent une matiere stimulante pour repenser le couple utopie/dystopie, a partir du travail d'un large panel d'artistes et d'architectes exposes a loccasion de l'exposition au MAAT ( Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) de Lisbonne.
Abstract: Les sept contributions de ce catalogue offrent une matiere stimulante pour repenser le couple utopie/dystopie, a partir du travail d’un large panel d’artistes et d’architectes exposes a l’occasion de l’exposition au MAAT ( Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) de Lisbonne.Si la notion d’utopie apparaissait dans l’ouvrage de Thomas More Utopia (1516) comme un futur ideal, elle se confronte desormais aux enjeux de la societe contemporaine. Selon Keller Easterling, dans son essai « Impossi...

5 citations

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01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the contexts, such as millennial anxiety, climate change, globalisation, terrorism and religious extremism that have informed the trend towards apocalyptic fiction in the contemporary moment.
Abstract: The introduction begins by tracing the contexts, such as millennial anxiety, climate change, globalisation, terrorism and religious extremism that have informed the trend towards apocalyptic fiction in the contemporary moment. However, the gender blindness of much of the work in this field is also noted. The genres (including dystopia, science fiction and speculative fiction) in which post-apocalyptic fiction can be placed are then discussed. The introduction then situates contemporary women’s post-apocalyptic writing in a number of different histories, including the utopian and dystopian tradition, before focusing closely on a comparison of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Octavia Butler’s Dawn (1987) as foundational texts within the genre.

5 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023244
2022672
202192
2020142
2019141