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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: Borges's 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' as mentioned in this paper is one of the best known stories in literature, but it was too complex and too involved to be included in his personal anthology.
Abstract: The erstwhile narrator of Borges's dense and raveled fiction, 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," concludes: 'Tlon is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men." Labyrinth indeed! There's the rub, for many men will "decipher" it (as is their wont) in many different ways. Quot homines, tot sententiae. But some won't decipher it at all. Even Borges himself admits that the story is one of his best, but that it was too complex and too involved to be included in his personal anthology. Andre Maurois evades the issue entirely by confessing that the tale "gives food for endless thought," but he does not find it necessary to produce a single instance of such thinking. Others believe it to be an innocent, simple, autobiographical tale: "Oppressed by physical reality and . . . the turmoil of Europe . . . Borges sought to create a coherent fictional world of the intelligence. This world is . . . adumbrated in 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.' Tlon is no 'irresponsible figment of the imagination' The [final section is] projected as a kind of tentative utopia." At the opposite extreme, it has been perceived as an exemplary postmodern metafiction, and even as trenchant satire.

1 citations

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TL;DR: In the second scene of Henry V, the Archbishop of Canterbury briefly digresses from the imme diate military issue to present a bit of pious lore, developing Exeter's point that a well-managed state "doth keep in one consent, / Con greeing in a full and natural close / Like music".
Abstract: When discussing "the Elizabethan World Picture," scholars usually make much of the Tudor Homily X, Part II, on "Good Order and Obedience," and of Ulysses' magnificent speech on "Degree" (Troilus and Cressida, I.iii).1 We should recall, however, that Shakespeare has another presentation of the conservative view of a well-ordered commonwealth: the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech on the honeybees in the second scene of Henry V. Falstaff has been rejected and, we soon learn, lies dying (II.i.80f.). King Henry and his court know nothing of this and probably wouldn't much care if they did know; they are engrossed in strategic consider ations that would either permit or prohibit an upcoming war in France. Canterbury momentarily digresses, it seems, from the imme diate military issue to present a bit of pious lore, developing Exeter's point that a well-managed state "doth keep in one consent, / Con greeing in a full and natural close / Like music."

1 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the role of technology in the development of a Dystopian Novel is discussed. But they focus on the Dystopia Novel because it emphasizes the most dramatic effects that technology might have in the lives of human beings.
Abstract: This TFG aims to study the role of technology in dystopian societies. I want to focus on the Dystopian Novel because it emphasizes the most dramatic effects that technology might have in the lives of human beings. Everything will be looked at through the eyes of science-fiction due to the fact that dystopian novels are usually within this genre. H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) will be the book that will guide the main ideas that will be developed.

1 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
18 Aug 2019
TL;DR: The authors investigates how to configure masculinities in the TV series The Handmaid's Tale, and observes how the future in the narrative is frightening by its pastness, since there is a resumption of old projects and worldviews to base the religious Republic of Gilead, where the plot takes place.
Abstract: This paper investigates how to configure masculinities in the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale . From the perception that the show suggests the failure of the modern idea of progress, we observe how the future in the narrative is frightening by its “pastness”, since there is a resumption of old projects and worldviews to base the religious Republic of Gilead, where the plot takes place. In a tension between utopia, dystopia and retrotopia, the search for the reaffirmation of an ideal of masculinity sets the tone of the authoritarian regime, in which men establish power from the subjugation of women, from the hardening of the concept of family and from control of space.

1 citations


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