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New Perspectives on Dystopian Fiction in Literature and Other Media

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This collection of essays examines various forms of dystopian fiction in literature, television, and digital games. It frames the timely trend of dystopian fiction as a thematic field that accommodates several genres from societal dystopia to apocalyptic narratives and climate fiction, many of them examining the hazards of science and technology to human societies and the ecosystem. These are genres of the Anthropocene par excellence, capturing the dilemmas of the human condition in the current, increasingly precarious epoch.

The essays offer new interpretations of classical and contemporary works, including the canonised prose of Orwell, Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, modern pop culture classics like Battlestar Galactica, Fallout and Hunger Games, and the work of Johanna Sinisalo, a pioneer of Finnish speculative fiction. From Thomas Pynchon to Watership Down, the volume's multifaceted approach offers fresh perspectives to those already familiar with existing research, but it is no less accessible for newcomers to the ever-expanding field of dystopian studies.

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ISBN: 9781527555396
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Author: Saija Isomaa, Jyrki Korpua, Jouni Teittinen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 285 pages
Genres: Films, cinema
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000