Invidual Versus Society in The Dystopian Fiction of The First Half of The XX-Th Century - Gabriel Roman-Barbuti
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Autor: Gabriel Roman-Barbuti
Invidual Versus Society in The Dystopian Fiction of The First Half of The XX-Th Century
Iasi, Octombrie 2008
101 pagini
The present paper has as its main theme the complex relationship between the individual and society in the anti-utopian literature of the first half of the XX-th century. As we know, this period has been an extremely prodigious one for the utopian literature, marking a decisive shift of perspective of the utopian imaginary.
The reasons for this will be analyzed in the following pages, both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. We will analyze the literary evolution of the utopian genre and the reasons that lead to its mutations, and also we will try to configure the paradigmatic changes in the collective imaginary that lead to the flourishing of anti-utopianism. We will thus try to understand the causes that lead to the emergence of the dystopian subgenre and to categorize them adequately.
This would also mean a contextualization of the general phenomenon concerning dystopianism, but also, due to the complexity of the writing, of the feelings and ideas expressed in it, from Zamyatin to Orwell, it will also be an attempt at an ampler vision on the matter, having in mind such issues as the origins of moral or the impact society has on the development and freedom of the individual.
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