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.

An intricate dystopia: The complexities of narrative in Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'

Abstract: Set in a dystopian world based on George Orwell's 1984, Brazil (1985) is an Academy Award - nominated science fiction film by director Terry Gilliam. The darkly comic film follows Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a highly capable but extremely unmotivated clerk who works in the Ministry of Information - a key organisation in his government's repressive bureaucratic machine. When Sam falls desperately in love with suspected terrorist bomber Jill Layton (Kim Greist), his world, along with the narrative structure of the film, slowly begins to fall apart.

Academic Dystopia: Teaching Incompetency and Sex in Contemporary American Drama

Abstract: This paper explores the negative patterns of dramatizing academic professors in two American plays: David Mamet’s Oleanna (1992) and R. A. Gurney’s Human Events (2001). My research considers the adaptation of professors and the way they are represented through their actions, behaviors, and relationships with students, friends, and the surrounding comunity in the two aforementioned plays. It seems to me that sex, alcoholism and teaching incompetency might be the major attributes related to male and female professors in recent and contemporary American theater.

Houellebecq’s Dystopia – A Case of the Elective Affinity between Sociology and Literature

Abstract: Michel Houellebecq's work has become increasingly popular among cultural analysts, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics and others interested in understanding and pinpointing some of the ailments and pathologies of contemporary civilization and many of his books have thus served as windows' to the present as well as to a frightening future. As John McCann has observantly pointed out regarding Houellebecq's writings: There is a very strong link between sociology and literature, particularly in Platforme. Sociology multi-layered scientific discipline that is able to integrate a wide variety of approaches and stances. Not only among sociologists is the potential relevance of literature to the scientific is rarely thought of as a pure discipline. It rather seems to be the fact or something of a truism that sociology is a investigation and understanding of society a matter of discussion and controversy; debate has also surfaced every now and then among literary scholars.

When will we ever learn? (wstęp)

Abstract: Literatura postapokaliptyczna stanowi paradoksalne spojrzenie na katastrofe,a jednocześnie daje mozliwośc odrodzenia.