Transformations Of Language In Modern Dystopias, Vol. 75
As the 20th century has progressed, dystopian fiction has gained power as utopian fiction has become increasingly irrelevant. As an overtly didactic genre, dystopia extrapolates terrifying near-futures from disturbing current trends. In order to quickly create an atmosphere that is at once plausible and terrifying, dystopian writers almost universally turn to an idea certain to generate both fear and sympathy in the reader—the dual concept of language as the primary tool by which repressive...
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Examines the importance of language to repressive groups and rebels in dystopian fiction.BooknewsExplores the central importance of language in dystopian novels, demonstrating that issues of controlling language inform nearly all dystopian fictions and that issues of language are closely intertwined with questions power and freedom in dystopian literature. Looks at insistence on the centrality of language as the key to both repression and rebellion in 20th-century dystopias, analyzing works including , , ,
Acknowledgments1The Language of Dystopia12"Plus 'Parfaite' et Moins Libre"173"It's a Beautiful Thing, the Destruction of Words"374"Milk with Knives in It"575The Evolving Nature of Dystopian Languages796Language and the Feminist Dystopia1077"You Never Know Where It Begun Realy"1378Claiming Mastery Over the Word161Selected Bibliography183Index199
\ BooknewsExplores the central importance of language in dystopian novels, demonstrating that issues of controlling language inform nearly all dystopian fictions and that issues of language are closely intertwined with questions power and freedom in dystopian literature. Looks at insistence on the centrality of language as the key to both repression and rebellion in 20th-century dystopias, analyzing works including , , ,
