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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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Abstract: From a certain perspective, literature is always political Literature in a broad sense has been a source of uprisings and protest at least since Martin Luther nailed his theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg in 1517 – and probably much further back in history than that Narratives are the most potent way to articulate both political praise and criticism within a given society In his political satires, British author George Orwell reviled all kinds of totalitarianism and the idea of a socialist utopia Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson wrote explicitly dystopian crime stories targeting the Swedish welfare state German novelist Heinrich Boll turned a critical eye on the development of the tabloid press and the use of state monitoring in German society In the same tradition, Michel Houellebecq has been seen as a very provocative writer in his tone and in his use of political tools He has articulated a nearly individual anarchist perspective combined with authoritarian and paternalistic views In Soumission, Houellebecq uses the European idea of multiculturalism to explode our political frames from within This article explores the perception of religion in Soumission, assesses the critique Houellebecq directs towards French society and European developments, and examines Houellebecq’s perception of democracy and politics The following questions are addressed: does Houellebecq’s critique come from a classical ideological perspective? Does he describe any elements of an ideal society – even if only as the reverse of a presented dystopia? What kind of democracy does the text of Soumission support or oppose?
TL;DR: The Handmaid's Tale by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is one of her most popular novels as discussed by the authors, which is a dystopian novel criticizing the current society and revealing women's fate as well as their resistance against power in the nightmarish world of Gilead.
Abstract: The Handmaid’s Tale by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is one of her most popular novels. It’s a dystopian novel criticizing the current society. This paper offers an analysis of the novel from the perspective of dystopia, revealing women’s fate as well as their resistance against power in the nightmarish world of Gilead.
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15 Jul 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze several comics from the Portuguese-speaking world regarding the symbolic functions of water within the stories and compare the results of the analysis with comic-stories from other countries, British and French comic-authors will be referred to, whenever necessary.
Abstract: The article tends to analyze several comics from the Portuguese-speaking world regarding the symbolic functions of water within the stories. Therefore, the text picks on the ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser about mutual interference of nature and culture, combining it with the theory of Foucault’s heterotopias and Deleuze’s and Guattari’s ideas on smooth and striated spaces. The question on the different functions of water is raised, depending on its appearance as rain or ocean. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether a general approach to the topic is intelligible or if differences between Brazilian and European tendencies can be detected. To compare the results of the analysis with comic-stories from other countries, British and French comic-authors will be referred to, whenever necessary.