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Character and Dystopia - The Last Men (Paperback)
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Character and Dystopia - The Last Men (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character
in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character
and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from
Underground, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nathanael West's
A Cool Million, David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Octavia Butler's
Parable of the Sower, Lois Lowry's The Giver, Michel Houellebecq's
Submission, Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years, and Maggie Shen King's
An Excess Male, showing how in the 20th and 21st centuries
dystopian nostalgia shades into reactionary humanism, a last stand
mounted in defense of forms of subjectivity no longer supported by
modernity. Unlike most work on dystopia that emphasizes dystopia's
politics, this book's approach grows out of questions of poetics:
What are the formal structures by which dystopian character is
constructed? How do dystopian characters operate differently than
other characters, within texts and upon the reader? What is the
relation between this character and other forms of literary
character, such as are found in romantic and modernist texts? By
reading character as crucial to the dystopian project, the book
makes a case for dystopia as a sensitive register of modern
anxieties about subjectivity and its portrayal in literary works.
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