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Dystopian Fiction East and West : Universe of Terror and Trial by Erika Gottlieb is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In Dystopian Fiction East and West Erika Gottlieb offers an original and comprehensive exploration of dystopian fiction. She discusses Western classics such as Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Zamiatin's We, all fictions that project expanded versions of the flaws of current society onto a hypothetical monster state in the future. These fictions work as prophetic warnings against a nightmare world that could, but should not be allowed to, come about.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Erika Gottlieb
- Publisher
- ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773522060
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
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