Tesi sul tema "Dystopian Science Fiction"
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Bouet, Elsa Dominique. "Hitting the wall : dystopian metaphors of ideology in science fiction". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9476.
Testo completoMacNeill, Gordon. "Moulding Minds : Media, Mass Manipulation and Subjectivity in Dystopian Science Fiction". Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507728.
Testo completoNEWMAN, CHINA RAE. "GENDER PERFORMANCE IN DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613347.
Testo completoMcGinney, William Lawrence. "The Sounds of the Dystopian Future: Music for Science Fiction Films of the New Hollywood Era, 1966-1976". Thesis, connect to online resource, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9839.
Testo completoZajac, Ronald J. (Ronald John). "The Dystopian city in British and US science fiction, 1960-1975 : urban chronotopes as models of historical closure". Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61046.
Testo completoByrnes, Claire D. "Blood on her hands: A practice-led approach to exploring violent heroines in dystopian fiction". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121424/2/Claire_Byrnes_Thesis.pdf.
Testo completoLueckel, Wolfgang. "Atomic Apocalypse - 'Nuclear Fiction' in German Literature and Culture". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281459381.
Testo completoCharléz, Sara. ""A Mere Dream Dreamed in a Bad Time" : A Marxist Reading of Utopian and Dystopian Elements in Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156031.
Testo completoDuval, Laura K. "The Marked". ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2690.
Testo completoUhlenbruch, Frauke. "The Nowhere Bible : the Biblical passage Numbers 13 as a case study of Utopian and Dystopian readings by diachronic audiences". Thesis, University of Derby, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/315827.
Testo completoAkkan, Goksu. "Audiovisual representations of Artificial Intelligence in Dystopian Tech Societies: Scaremongering or Reality? The Cases of Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, 2011), Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2017) and Her (Spike Jonze, 2014)". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671832.
Testo completoLa inteligencia artificial es un concepto que fascina a la humanidad durante milenios. Desde la antigüedad, los humanos han estado obsesionados con la idea de crear un humano artificial perfecto para diferentes fines, como la compañía o la ayuda doméstica, y han escrito sobre ello en textos fundacionales de diversas culturas. Esto se convirtió progresivamente en literatura de protofantasía o proto-ciencia ficción en la Alta Edad Media. Sin embargo, no fue hasta el siglo XIX cuando la influyente obra Frankenstein (1818) de Mary Shelley reunió diferentes aspectos de la creación de un ser humano artificial, discutidos dentro de una comprensión psicológica y social más amplia. Con la llegada de los medios audiovisuales en el siglo XX, estas representaciones de humanoides creados artificialmente o de otras creaciones con cierto grado de conciencia han poblado tanto la gran pantalla como la televisión. Esta tesis se centra en las conexiones sociales de dichas representaciones de la Inteligencia Artificial, centrándose en la serie de televisión Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, 2011), así como en las películas Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) y Her (Spike Jonze, 2014), analizando las relaciones entre la Inteligencia Artificial y los humanos desde una variedad de perspectivas y paradigmas diferentes. El análisis audiovisual de las obras seleccionadas va seguido de una exploración sobre cómo estos avances tecnológicos recientes se están produciendo en nuestra sociedad actual, vinculándolos con las advertencias que formulan las obras seleccionadas y ofreciendo una lectura de futuro que requiere la implementación de una estricta normativa en torno a la Inteligencia Artificial para aliviar las ansiedades humanas sobre la tecnología. Palabras clave: inteligencia artificial, tecnología, sociedad, ciencia ficción, distopía, estudios cinematográficos.
Artificial Intelligence has been a concept that has infatuated humankind for millennia. Since antiquity, humans have been obsessed with the idea of creating a perfect artificial human for different aims such as companionship or domestic help, and ancient cultures have devoted foundational texts to the artificial human. This literary occupation gradually evolved into proto-fantasy or proto-Science Fiction literature in the early middle ages. However, it wasn’t until the 19th century that Mary Shelley’s influential work Frankenstein (1818) brought together different aspects of creating an artificial human discussed within a broader social and psychological understanding. With the advent of audiovisual media in the 20th century, such representations of artificially created humanoids or other creations with some degree of consciousness have populated both the silver screen and television. This thesis focuses on the societal connections between such representations of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on the TV show Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, 2011) as well as the films Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) and Her (Spike Jonze, 2014) by analyzing the Artificial Intelligence - human relationships from a variety of different perspectives and paradigms. The audiovisual analyses of the selected works are then followed by an examination of how such recent technological developments are taking place in our current society. These texts under examination exhort us to beware the potential dangers of AI technology, which require implementation of strict regulations around the Artificial Intelligence framework in order to alleviate human anxieties about technology. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, technology, technology and society, Science Fiction, dystopia, film studies, society.
Pettersson, Björn. "Brist på själslig insikt? : Utomjordingar och deras forskning kring människan i Dark City". Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13020.
Testo completoColas, de La Noue Hélène. "Dystopie et science-fiction au Québec : 1963-1973 : étude des représentations des sciences et des techniques". Thèse, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1989. http://depot-e.uqtr.ca/5596/1/000580215.pdf.
Testo completoDivine, Susan Marie. "Utopias of Thought, Dystopias of Space: Science Fiction in Contemporary Peninsular Narrative". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195666.
Testo completoPeters, Rebecca Anne. "When Code replaces scripture: Black Mirror, Technology and the Specter of Cristianity". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673473.
Testo completoAquesta tesi analitza el paper de la tecnologia en substitució del de la religió cristiana a través de 12 episodis de la sèrie de ciència-ficció Black Mirror (2011-present). La importància d'analitzar aquests episodis en conjunt es fa evident quan es consideren debats contemporanis entorn de la tecnologia i els nostres objectius tecnològics col·lectius. Es comparen els episodis amb conceptes cristians que reflecteixen, els esdeveniments històrics i els debats teològics del cristianisme i les tendències i esdeveniments contemporanis relacionats amb la tecnologia. Històricament, el cristianisme ha configurat la ideologia cultural d'occident, com les concepcions de la mort, el sofriment i el lloc de la humanitat al món; aquestes idees continuen penetrant en les narratives culturals actuals, tot i disminuir l'autoreconeixement d'Occident com a religiós.
Tobin, Stephen Christopher. "Visual Dystopias from Mexico’s Speculative Fiction: 1993-2008". The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437528785.
Testo completoDrage, Eleanor Guistina Prudence <1991>. "Utopia/Dystopia, Race, Gender, and New Forms of Humanism in Women's Science Fiction". Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/8828/1/Eleanor%20Drage%20-%20Thesis%20-Cotutela%20.pdf.
Testo completoJackson, Sarah Anne. "Utopia and dystopia in futuristic nonfiction television". Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/jackson/JacksonS0510.pdf.
Testo completoWarwick, Harry. "The aesthetics of enclosure : dystopia and dispossession in the 1980s Hollywood science-fiction film". Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/427159/.
Testo completoBowser, Alexander Jon. "Bad pixels challenges of microbudget digital cinema". Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4852.
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Thibodeau, Amanda. "Gender, Utopia, and Temporality in Feminist Science Fiction: (Re)Reading Classic Texts of the Past, in the Present, and for the Future". Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/586.
Testo completoNilsson, Ylva. "Den rationella kroppen : Makt och kontroll över kropp i dystopi, utopi och science fiction". Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-21320.
Testo completoGodkännandedatum 2013-01-16
Geef, Dennis [Verfasser]. "Late Capitalism and Its Fictitious Future(s) : The Postmodern, Science Fiction, and the Contemporary Dystopia / Dennis Geef". Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077265468/34.
Testo completoJeannin, Hélène. "Les représentations fictionnelles de la surveillance. Dystopies contemporaines de la redite a l'innovation". Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030152.
Testo completoAbout fifteen works from different artistic and cultural backgrounds [literature and cinema], and sharing a common denominator, will be submitted to our questioning: is there an ideal type of society under surveillance? Through the use of taxonomy and a comparatist approach, we will draw up a typology of images as key elements of our representations. The system of multiplying symbolic referents inherent in each work completes a network of visual exogenous correspondence based on a relatively steady image referential. Works prove to be rich, both in meaning and symbol. The many images used by the writer, by means of metaphors or other tropes, meet that of a fiction director. A transversal study leads to a directory of visual codifications bearing upon imaginary worlds. This is how we observe an incessant process of recycling ideas and stories, that evolve into standards, thus enabling to capture the eye of an ever more international public, while forging a social imaginary world, settling in by way of contagion. The topics dealt with are serious. As a whole, they disseminate a vision of the world that obeys, most of the time, a rationalization principle that is supposed to be in line with control and manipulation. New worlds arise, bringing out universal eye-openers. Our [science-fiction] authors fall in with a long tradition [utopia]. But the genre, via obligated topics and conventions, do not for as much pressure one to diminish their capacity for renewal, and repetition does not curb their innovation
Jackson, Vivian Elaine. "New technology in education as viewed through the utopic and dystopic worlds of science fiction". Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/vivian_e_jackson/jackson_vivian_e_200701_edd.pdf.
Testo completo"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." In Curriculum Studies, under the direction of John A. Weaver. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-402) and appendices.
Hedberg, Sebastian. "Concep Art : En praktisk studie om arbetsprocessen bakom skapandet av konstformen med dystopi/postapokalyptisk science fiction som tema". Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3437.
Testo completoSwirski, Peter. "Dystopia or dischtopia : an analysis of the SF paradigms in Thomas M. Disch". Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61241.
Testo completoNilsson, Kerstin. "Att förhindra en dystopisk framtid : Samhällskritik och science fiction i De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar av Johannes Anyuru". Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-38126.
Testo completoSundkvist, Patrick. "Dreams of Democracy within Extreme Dystopias : A Study of the Imperium of Man". Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84245.
Testo completoSyftet med denna uppsats är att analysera ett flertal dystopiska element som existerar i det fiktiva universumet Warhammer: 40000 och påvisa hur dessa element avslöjar kritik riktad mot auktoritär politik och filosofi. Jag valde en fördjupad läsning av ett antal texter och analyserade karaktärernas relation till det galaktiska imperiet Imperium of Man och fann områden vars fokus var förtryck mot yttrandefrihet, existensiella kriser och drömmar om frihet. I min analys av Warhammer: 40000 argumenterar jag att styrelseskicket som etablerats i Imperium of Man skapar dessa humanitära kriser, vilket till viss del blivit inspirerat av mänsklighetens egen historia.
Karlsson, Torbjörn, e Gustav Ekholm. "Genusframställningen i Star Trek - en utopi eller dystopi?" Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-528.
Testo completoTitel: Genusframställningen i Star Trek – en utopi eller dystopi
Författare: Gustav Ekholm och Torbjörn Karlsson
Handledare: Malin Nilsson
Examinator: Veronica Stoehrel
Typ av arbete: C-uppsats i Medie och Kommunikationsvetenskap, 10p HT-06
Plats: Högskolan i Halmstad
Syfte: Uppsatsen syfte är att fastställa huruvida åtta olika avsnitt ur tv-serien Star Trek belyser genusfrågor och utmanar avsnitten i så fall de rådande genusdiskurserna.
Metod: Den här uppsatsen fokuserar på åtta Star Trek avsnitt som producerades mellan 1960-talet och 2000-talet.
Metoden för analysen är en kritisk diskursanalys med utgång från Norman Fairclougs diskurskritiska modell.
Resultat: Uppsatsens slutsats är att Star Trek-serierna berör genusfrågor i olika utsträckning beroende på vilket årtal avsnitten är från. Det konstateras också att viktiga genusämnen, likt homosexualitet, tas upp men beroende på olika omständigheter saknas ofta ett djup i framställningen.
Nyckelord: Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, science fiction, genus, diskurs, diskursanalys, textanalys, makt, tv-serier, dominansförhållanden.
Mumme, Lisa Pollock Mumme. "Not things: gender and music in the Mad Max franchise". Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/7056.
Testo completoHoosic, Erica. "Chaosmomalia". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1575545373034738.
Testo completoRodriguez, Nogueira François. "La société totalitaire dans le récit d'anticipation dystopique, de la première moitié du XXè siècle, et sa représentation au cinéma". Thesis, Nancy 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009NAN21030/document.
Testo completoThe utopian tradition a long time maintained the dream an ideal society located in one elsewhere, a u-topos, the "place which is not" in the Utopia of Thomas More. The representation of these Utopias is indissociable of a determining factor for the construction of a better world: progress. Thus, this tradition is characterized by the Promethean accent of such a company, they are hands of the man who this new society will be worked. However, the point of view on the possibility of an ideal society gradually will inflect, in particular during the 19th century, to be reversed in a radical way at the beginning of the 20th century. Named anti-Utopia or against-Utopia, this disillusion underlines the impotence of the man and the ambiguous role of progress to invent the perfect society. Sometimes used as synonym of anti-Utopia, the dystopia more precisely characterizes the texts which describe a society directed by an absolute system of oppression, based on an omnipotent State, and almost always scientifically organized. Thus, abnormal operations of the city of the future in The World such as it will be of Emile Souvestre, in 1846, in the State Unique in Us of Evgueni Zamiatine, written in 1920, the dystopia evolves by taking the form of the account of science fiction, and in particular that of anticipation. We will see, in particular, how the Utopia takes seat in works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Zamiatine, very inspired by Wells, is the first great writer of the 20th century to be made use of the dystopia to describe the attributes of the totalitarian society. Thus, if our step consists, initially, to appoint the authors and texts which took part in the emergence of the dystopia, our analysis will primarily carry on Us and three other Romance founders of the dystopia at the 20th century: Brave New World of Aldous Huxley, published into 1932, 1984 of George Orwell, published in 1948 and Fahrenheit 451 of Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. We will study the totalitarian phenomenon according to interpretations that make our authors of them. It will be thus a question of the collectivization of the individual, the propaganda or the role of science in the organization of the totalitarian society. But it will also be a question of showing how our dystopies illustrates the combat of art against the totalitarian entropy, and the engagement of their authors in a true political discourse. Lastly, it appears essential to describe what perhaps appears as the most effective form of the representation of the dystopia: the science fiction film. We will see why the novel dystopic sorrow more and more support the comparison face to the immediacy of the language of the moving image
Hanzén, Mia. "Tillfälligheter". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-103580.
Testo completoWelser, Tracie Anne. "Fantastic Visions: On the Necessity of Feminist Utopian Narrative". [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001166.
Testo completoStjernström, Elsa, e Jenny Emanuelsson. "Dystopi och jordens undergång : En genreanalys av dystopiska inslag i fiktiv film". Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-21167.
Testo completoLagerqvist, Anna. "”Shouldn’t I be in your position?” : En studie av klass och kön i Marie Lus Legendtrilogi". Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-105846.
Testo completoCroci, D. "'THE END WILL BE THE OVER-MAN': UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE AND GRAPHIC NOVEL". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/527570.
Testo completoThis thesis aims at tracing the influence of British writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946) on the birth and development of Anglo-American superhero comics. First, it considers the way in which Wells’s early scientific romances – The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and When the Sleeper Wakes (1899) – stemmed from the late-Victorian scientific episteme and romantic tradition to explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of superhumanity. Then, it sets out to analyze the percolation of Wellsian motifs through early-twentieth century American popular culture. I take into account Upton Sinclair’s The Overman (1907), Philip Wylie’s Gladiator (1930), and Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s “The Reign of the Super-Man” (1933) as transitional works that on the one hand reformulated Wells’s ideas and tropes for an American audience, and on the other hand paved the way for the creation of Superman (1938) and Batman (1939). The aim is to demonstrate that Wells’s direct and indirect influence on the inception of superhero comic books contributed to produce a twofold ambivalence about technological modernity and utopianism. Finally, this work scrutinizes the way in which Alan Moore’s 1980s graphic novels drew both on these structural ambiguities and their Wellsian predecessors to negotiate the tension between utopianism and anti-utopianism. I argue that Miracleman (1982-89), V for Vendetta (1982-89) and Watchmen (1986-87) explore the antinomies of utopia and dystopia as they deconstruct the ideological assumptions of the superhero genre. As postmodern revisions of the archetype, these graphic novels problematize superheroes’s modernity vis-à-vis the end of metanarratives. A combination of literary studies, cultural studies and studies on comics/graphic novels provide the methodological framework for this work. In particular, I rely on cultural studies’ multi-disciplinary approach and materialist mode of inquiry to incorporate analytical tools from literary theory, utopian studies, historiography, cultural criticism, and semiotics.
Oliveira, Priscilla Pellegrino de. "A Ordem e o caos: diferentes momentos da literatura distópica de ficção científica". Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1822.
Testo completoThis dissertation aims at discussing the importance of the historical moment in the construction of the narrative of a Science Fiction novel, focusing on Brave New World (1932), by the English writer Aldous Huxley, and The Execution Channel (2007), by the Scottish novelist Ken MacLeod. The first one describes a dystopic society in a distant future, revealing, however, evident aspects of the 1920s and the 1930s. The second one, which is about a plausible near future for humankind, though presenting an alternative to the History of the period between 2000 and 2007, clearly refers to worries on the post-modern individuals mind. The different moments in which the analyzed novels are inserted the interwar period and the beginning of the twenty-first century, respectively allow us to make some considerations starting from definitions of utopia and dystopia conceived along the history of utopic thought, especially through sociopolitical perspectives which are relevant to the periods in question, attempting to emphasize how History is present in Huxleys and MacLeods narratives under consideration
Fredriksson, Erik. "The Human Animal : An Ecocritical View of Animal Imagery in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World". Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23625.
Testo completoCampbell, Stuart. "Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1867.
Testo completoCarabédian, Alice. "Le devenir-autre de l'utopie : représentations d'un imaginaire politique conflictuel dans le Cycle de la Culture d'Iain M. Banks". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC322.
Testo completoIt is difficult not to conceive utopia as a rupture: through original spatial division, temporal tension, critical discordance. Yet, theories and attacks from anti-utopians consider utopia as an illusory world, even useless, enclosed, marking the end of times and potentially dangerous for humanity. What if utopia was not the programme of a better society to realize,but instead a transgressive practice, an apparition of discontinuity in our « now and here », an excess which overtakes reality rather than a possible that has yet to be realized in the future? Iain M. Banks is a contemporary, original and audacious science-fiction author, who,aware of the inherent dangers of utopia, has known how to challenge these limits in order to provide a completely unique utopian society: this utopia is called the Culture. How to critically reinvest utopia? How can science fiction – and more precisely the genre of space-opera – depict political issues, worthy of philosophical enquiry? Iain M. Banks imagines a space for utopia, entirely oriented towards encounter,proximity, and novelty. Subverting science-fictional and utopian traditions, notions of alterity and conflict span the Culture Cycle. These two characteristics are the guiding principles of this dissertation, which aims at reconceptualizing utopia through a philosophical, political and literary perspective, by way of analysing the representations of utopian discourses within the science-fictional laboratory. These discourses take three shapes: dystopia, heterotopia, (e)utopia. Together, they outline a “radical utopian culture”
Gripenvik, Christian. "Is/Ice". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95589.
Testo completoGlover, Jayne Ashleigh. ""A complex and delicate web" : a comparative study of selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy /". [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1001/.
Testo completoHellgren, Per. "Mord i framtidslandet : Samhällskritiken i Per Wahlöös framtidsromaner". Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19250.
Testo completoSaldías, Rossel Gabriel Alejandro. "En el peor lugar posible: teoría de lo distópico y su presencia en la narrativa tardofranquista española (1965 – 1975)". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/295707.
Testo completoCritical attention towards dystopian literature has been, for the most part, historically focused on the Anglo-Saxon narrative of the 19th and 20th century, particularly on the novels of those considered the three “classical dystopians”: Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury. Hispanic academia, on the other hand, has seldom preoccupied itself with examining the influence of these dystopias in Spanish literature, not to mention the little attention given to the structural composition of these particular kind of narratives in the Iberian Peninsula. With this historical and theoretical background in consideration, the main hypothesis of this study seeks to posit that there is a very specific dystopian tradition present in 20th century Spanish narrative that not only shows the evident influence of its North American and English predecessors, but that also expands it and adapts it so that it may accurately reflect the Spanish context of the second half of the 20th century, creating, in the process, a plethora of highly original and aesthetically interesting works of literary fiction. In order to be as exhaustive as possible in our examination of the dystopian phenomenon, this thesis had been divided in three main sections: diachronic evolution of the narrative dystopia, literary configuration of the dystopian and presence of the dystopian in late-Franquist narrative (1965 – 1975). The first part of the study, as indicated by its name, seeks to provide a comprehensible and coherent historical and theoretical frame regarding the different stages of evolution of dystopia over time, as well as the different theories that have tried to explain it over the years, from the last decades of the 19th century to the first ones of the 21st. On a more theoretical front, the second part of the research seeks to problematize and deepen the meaning of many of the concepts introduced during the first section, discussing and redefining the fundamental aspects of the literary dystopian constitution from both a formal and a functional perspective. Finally, the last part of the research recuperates the theoretical and literary propositions made in previous chapters and applies them in the analysis of a very heterogeneous corpus of Spanish narratives written during the last 10 years of the Franquist regime, a historical moment that was pivotal for the evolution of the Spanish dystopian tradition, during which these kind of novels and short stories allowed the dissatisfied intellectuals and creative minds of the country to criticize the totalitarian regime in which they lived via the creation of non-mimetic and imaginative societies. Thus, through the discussion on the cultural and literary components of the narrative forms, the rhetorical functioning of the utopian, the ideological configuration and the theoretical and structural understanding of the dystopian literature; and as also by taking into account the critical, comprehensive and profound body of Spanish narrative produced during the last 10 years of the Franqiust era –period that includes celebrated authors such as Miguel Delibes and Francisco Garcia Pavón, as well as other less renowned names, like Enrique Jarnés, Antonio Burgos and Jorge Ferrer-Vidal–, is that the present thesis seeks to prove the remarkable importance the dystopian, both as a cultural and literary phenomenon, has had in shaping the literature of the last century in the Spanish territory and explain why its practice has only grown over time and will continue to do so in the following years.
ROMANZI, Valentina (ORCID:0000-0002-7995-3917). "Incubi americani: la distopia nella narrativa statunitense del ventunesimo secolo". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/186142.
Testo completoThis dissertation investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century U.S. fiction. Using a methodological framework based on sociology, it theorises a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest for dystopian worlds. Part One is dedicated to the definition and exploration of the concept of dystopia and to the description of the status of the American myths. Part Two focuses on textual analyses: its three chapters mirror the sub-genres of political, technological, and environmental dystopia.
Dujarric, Florence. "La ville de Rebus : polarités urbaines dans les romans d'Ian Rankin (1987-2007)". Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01015364.
Testo completoIvarsson, Marcus. "Ultima Thule". Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6918.
Testo completoGlover, Jayne Ashleigh. ""A complex and delicate web" : a comparative study of selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy". Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002241.
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