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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: This paper explored the dystopian novels of the 1930s by Chinese novelists Zhang Tianyi "Ghostland Diary" and Lao She "Cat Country" and found that the form of hyperbolic generalization of modern realities, elements of satire and irony in the depiction of society gave the works a timeless and extraspatial character, taking them beyond the limits of Chinese reality.
Abstract: We explore the dystopian novels of the 1930s by Chinese novelists Zhang Tianyi “Ghostland Diary” (1931) and Lao She “Cat Country” (1932). We give brief information about the specifics of the work of Chinese writers who are not known to a wide range of modern domestic readers and literary critics. We reveal the typological proximity of these works to the dystopian novel by Y.I. Zamyatin “We”. We identify the literary predecessors of the analyzed novels, the connection with the works of Russian, Chinese, and world literature. We note the role of criticism in the fate of authors and their creations. We designate traditional and innovative genre and style features of books. We analyze in detail the plot-compositional structure, figurative system, and ideological content of the novels. We consider an ironic description of various spheres of life: the party system, elections, the education system, wars, and the creative activity of decadent poets. The features of narration associated with the artistic functions of narrators are studied in detail. The synthetic nature of the novels, combining elements of several literary genres, is noted. We reveal that the form of hyperbolic generalization of modern realities, elements of satire and irony in the depiction of society gave the works a timeless and extraspatial character, taking them beyond the limits of Chinese reality. We form an idea of the genre-typological community of Zhang Tianyi and Lao She’s warning novels, exposing myths about the ideal society of the 20th century.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors use chromatic semiotics as a proactive weapon in the defense of the environment, in the fight for a new paradigm alien to growing systems, to an educational environment to reverse the situation and determine environmental stability.
Abstract: The disruptive events that have occurred in recent years encourage us to determine that science does not make free assessments of the climate situation. The territory, its resources, are in a phase of depredation, the environment, attacked. The result is a process of environmental degradation without a solution of continuity. We take great care in environmental words and discourses, we ignore the value of the image, that of "an image is worth a thousand words", which refers us to the value of graphic expression. Through its analysis in this article, we claim it as a proactive weapon in the defense of the environment, in the fight for a new paradigm alien to growing systems, to an educational environment to reverse the situation and determine environmental stability. Actions are difficult, but they are possible, and in chromatic semiotics we find a fundamental ally. The emotion, the feeling, is the first asset to remove to start the path of reversal.
TL;DR: In this paper , the threat of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh is discussed. But the authors focus on the global politics of climate adaptation and do not address the specific case of Bangladesh.
Abstract: "Threatening dystopias: the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh." Social & Cultural Geography, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how the fear of imagination and discrimination affect the four main characters in each story and apply the theory of social influence, discrimination, and coping mechanisms to show how Dylan, Elias, Bryna, and Corina deal with the effects of discrimination.
Abstract: This short story series is a coming-of-age and dystopian series that focuses on the impacts of the fear of imagination and discrimination on preteens and how they cope with it. This fear is shown through a virus named imaginatio virus, a special virus that attacks the main characters to induce imagination. The government made imagination-prevention and discrimination rules to get rid of the virus completely. We explore how the fear of imagination and discrimination affect the four main characters in each story. We apply the theory of social influence, discrimination, and coping mechanisms to show how Dylan, Elias, Bryna, and Corina deal with the effects of discrimination. In our creative work, we show that the four main characters succeed in being confident by focusing on the strength in themselves, finding help in trusted people, and not dwelling in the problem. Keywords: imagination, short stories, discrimination, dystopian, coming-of-age
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors focus on the detailed analysis of the main characters and social systems portrayed by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World so as to demonstrate the inhuman and irrational nature of "the World State" under its manifestation of "stability, advancement and happiness".
Abstract: : For a long time, man has wished for a long-lasting peaceful and perfect world. As a result, Utopian literature appears, beginning from Plato’s conceiving of an ideal society in Republic to its peak when More offers the public a picture of such a society in his masterpiece Utopia. Nevertheless, in the 20 th century, especially after the Second World War, many scholars have given up their imagination of Utopia and turned their attention toward its opposite form—dystopia: the criticism and satire of current reality and the discussion of the hidden defects of Utopia. Thus, there exists the relationship of inheritance and evolution between Utopian writings and Dystopian literature. Brave New World, as one of the Dystopia Trilogy, written by Aldous Huxley, focuses on the real social problems of “the World State”, the modern Utopia. Technology has increasingly penetrated into human’s daily life in every aspect. Issues about ethics of science and technology has provided constant warnings for both scientists and common citizens. Human beings are frequently confronted with such a question “whether advancement in science and technology leads to the alienation of humanity.” If there is no perfect society, where will human beings head for finally? These are the topics the novelist is concerned about. This thesis will focus on the detailed analysis of the fate of main characters and social systems portrayed by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World so as to demonstrate the inhuman and irrational nature of “the World State” under its manifestation of “stability, advancement and happiness”, thus deconstructing Utopian fantasy of the novel, illustrating its Dystopian theme and at the same time inquiring about the possibility of establishing a more ideal society.