{"product_id":"9780367543310-character-dystopia","title":"Character and Dystopia","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Last Men. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharacter and Dystopia\u003c\/i\u003e examines dystopian characterization through analysis of the \"last man\" figure. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThis is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the \"last man\" figure, \u003ci\u003eCharacter and Dystopia: The Last Men \u003c\/i\u003eexamines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Burgess’s \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, Kazuo Ishiguro’s \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e, George Orwell’s \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e, Nathanael West’s \u003ci\u003eA Cool Million\u003c\/i\u003e, David Mamet’s \u003ci\u003eGlengarry Glen Ross\u003c\/i\u003e, Octavia Butler’s \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e, Lois Lowry’s \u003ci\u003eThe Giver\u003c\/i\u003e, Michel Houellebecq’s \u003ci\u003eSubmission\u003c\/i\u003e, Chan Koonchung’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fat Years\u003c\/i\u003e, and Maggie Shen King’s \u003ci\u003eAn Excess Male\u003c\/i\u003e, 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: \u003ci\u003eWhat 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? \u003c\/i\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40809077473377,"sku":"9780367543310","price":46.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/3789f50be2c677b7c43f0e95d5c82c70.png?v=1695227978","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367543310-character-dystopia","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}