{"product_id":"critical-theory-and-dystopia-paperback","title":"Critical Theory and Dystopia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia McManus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritical theory and dystopia \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological work these dark imaginings perform, the book reconstructs the historical emergence, consolidation and transformation of the genre across the twentieth century and into our own, ranging from Yevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e (1924) and Aldous Huxley's \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e (1932), to Anthony Burgess's \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) and Suzanne Collins's \u003ci\u003eHunger Games\u003c\/i\u003e series (2000s and 2010s). In doing so, it reveals the political logics opened up or neutered by the successive moments of this dystopian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDystopian fiction is one of the most popular genres of the twenty-first century. This book explores its meaning and significance, asking whether it retains the critical energy of the utopian fiction it seems to have replaced or whether it is simply a compensatory form that extolls the present as preferable to a frightening future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book tracks dystopia as a genre of fiction that occupies the spaces of literature and politics simultaneously. Drawing on Theodor Adorno's critique of the situation of writing in the twentieth century, it applies the notion of a 'negative commitment' to situate both the potential and the limits of dystopia. Examining classic dystopias by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, the book follows the mutation of the genre in works by Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard and William Gibson in the 1980s. It concludes by exploring the dystopias of Michel Houellebecq, Lionel Shriver and Gary Shteyngart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritical theory and dystopia\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case for a more rigorously historicised understanding of the dystopias we have now. In addition to reworking the scholarship on dystopian fiction, it also makes a significant contribution towards reorienting approaches to Theodor Adorno, casting his literary-theoretical work as an invaluable resource with which to approach our own present so as to figure out how best to break out of it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia McManus is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45823677792339,"sku":"9781526139757","price":58.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/9731\/2595\/files\/FgdCOUZ-bm9781526139757.webp?v=1784123457","url":"https:\/\/the-stone-owl-bookstore.myshopify.com\/products\/critical-theory-and-dystopia-paperback","provider":"The Stone Owl Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}