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Newspeak, the Linguistic Monster in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty‐Four [PDF]
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, 2022 George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) is his most important work, one which also enjoys undiminished popularity and political relevance. This dystopia, which is a novel of ideas, is populated with monsters, the proponents of the tyrannical regime ...
DOBOŞ DANIELA
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, 2022 Der Artikel charakterisiert (in englischer Sprache) das moderne Literatur-Genre des dystopischen Romans als zentrales Medium der literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen von Recht und Unrecht, insbesondere mit dem Problem der Perversion des Rechts in manifesten oder vorstellbaren Unrechtsregimes.
Surkamp, Carola, Wehrmann, Jürgen
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Representation of the Elderly in Thomas More’s Utopia and Lois Lowry’s The Giver
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2023 While the first utopias manifested aspirations for a better socio-political system, dystopias typically reflect societal fears and concerns that are intensified by the twentieth century’s political and social crises that, besides other significant turns,
Antra Leine
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day
Sillages Critiques, 2022 This introductory piece looks back at the “Orwellian moment” that was the year 1984, which prompted a re-examination of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s potential prophecies and witnessed a dystopian resurgence in literature, then asks whether an Orwellian ...
Claire Wrobel
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American Economic Review, 2021 Autocratic regimes, democratic majorities, private platforms, and religious or professional organizations can achieve social control by managing the flow of information about individuals’ behavior. Bundling the agents’ political, organizational, or religious attitudes with information about their prosocial conduct makes them care about behaviors that ...
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Looking forward backwards: Varieties of capitalisms, alternative futures, and learning landscapes
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2021 Critiques of capitalism have constituted the backbone of political economies addressing living, working, and learning conditions in a variety of forms of capitalism.
Barry J Hake
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A Foucauldian Reading of Utopias/Dystopias in Selected Novels by Margaret Atwood [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 The purpose of this study is to examine the validity of utopian systems by investigating Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1986), The Testaments (2019) and The Heart Goes Last (2015).
Salma Hanno
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Gender Studies, 2023 The paper examines the manner in which female anger and anxiety are channelled through two recent American reproductive dystopias, Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks (2018) and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017). Starting from these two novels, I
Andreescu Raluca
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The future of utopias and dystopias in presentist times
Esboços, 2021 In this article, I try to answer some concerns raised by Patrícia Vieira’s article about the place of utopias and dystopias in the contemporary world.
Julio Bentivoglio
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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ., 2022 The article examines the features of the characters of the heroes of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Don't Let Me Go" in the context of the dystopia of the 21st century. Based on a comparison of the dystopias of the 20th century on the one hand, and dystopias of
Olena Andreichykova
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