دانلود کتاب Character and Dystopia: The Last Men (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Section I Background 1 Introduction: The Last Men in Europe 2 The Character of Dystopia The Language of Despair Realist Dystopia Setting and Character Setting as Character 3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dystopia The Good Place Anti-utopianism and Anti-utopias Dystopian Narrative Dystopian Law Post-apocalypse Future (Im)Perfect Section II De-forming Character 4 The Last (Hu)Man(ist) Humanism in Crisis Utopian and Dystopian Humanism and Anti-humanism Dystopianism, Naturalism, and Modernism Defensive Forms: Humanism, Anti-humanism, and the Dystopian Novel Dystopian Humanism Dystopian Anti-humanism 5 Anti-Bildungsroman: Dystopia and the End of Character in Zamyatin, Burgess, and Ishiguro The Novel of De-formation Allegories of Progress Divine Minus: Zamyatin’s Reverse Bildungsroman The Predator’s Progress: Burgess’s Satiric Bildungsroman Crimes Against Posthumanity: Ishiguro’s Bildungsroman Incarnate 6 Paranoid Plots: Dystopia and the Fantasy of Centrality in Dostoevsky and Orwell Romantic Paranoia Paranoid Poetics “Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent” Diseased Romanticism: Dostoevsky’s Psychological Dystopia He Loved Big Brother: Orwell and the Fantasy of Persecution Section III Dystopian Variations 7 American Anti-pastoral: Running Down a Dream in West and Mamet Dystopian Design What Happens to a Dream Deformed? West’s World: Dystopian Picaresque in West’s A Cool Million Utopian Plots: Dystopian Capitalism in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross 8 Romancing the Child: First Teens in Lowry and Butler First Teens New Worlds for Old Desires A Family Affair: Romantic Humanism in Lowry’s The Giver On the Road Again: Anti-romantic Anti-humanism in Butler’s Earthseed 9 Epilogue: The Dystopian Real Postscript Works Cited Index