Fictional endstates
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01/01/1999
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Studies the intellectual in power striving to realise the universal State or Empire. Examines this theme through the medium of four fictional narratives: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Aldous Huxley's Brave new world, Arthur Koestler's Heart of darkness, and George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. The hypothesis of the inquiry is that all four of these texts provide fictional redescriptions of a crisis of confidence in the Enlightenment ideal of progress. |
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Deakin University, Faculty of Arts, School of Literary and Communication Studies |
Palavras-Chave | #Orwell, George, 1903-1950 - Criticism and interpretation #Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 - Criticism and interpretation #Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 1884-1937 - Criticism and interpretation #Koestler, Arthur, 1905- - Criticism and interpretation #Progress in literature |
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