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	Utopian/Dystopian Literature Message Board
		Dystopian Literature is a relatively new genre of literature, which represents the mindset of the twentieth century, especially the post World War II and Cold War period.
		Dystopian Literature is a relatively new genre of literature, first appearing in strength during the early nineteenth century.
		Dystopian literature is typically placed in a futuristic setting of, by definition, "no time" and "no place" (Firchow, 84).
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	Dystopian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dystopian Records Focuses on political industrial music and information.
		The Semiotics of Utopianism in National Lampoon's European Vacation A rigorous semiotic analysis of the film and its Utopian (or Dystopian) views.
		The Dystopian World of Blade Runner: An Ecofeminist Perspective An exploration of the many themes including mastery of nature, mythical references, concequences of corporate control and the irony of it all.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Dystopian.html (155 words)

	Encyclopedia: Utopian and dystopian fiction
		Fahrenheit 451 book cover Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was originally published in the second issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
		The dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, opens with the line Spoiler warning: Unfortunately, this equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the lowest common denominator, a process central to the society which is overseen...
		Ecotopian fiction is a subgenre of Utopian fiction where the author posits either a utopian or dystopian world revolving around environmental conservation or destruction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Utopian-and-dystopian-fiction (1236 words)

	M. Keith Booker- Woman on the Edge of a Genre: The Feminist Dystopias of Marge Piercy
		And her victimization becomes particularly vivid when she is wrongly diagnosed as a violent paranoid schizophrenic and incarcerated in a nightmarish mental institution that serves as a sort of microcosm of the oppressively carceral society in which she lives.
		The specific content of her utopian and dystopian visions directly confronts a number of masculine stereotypes (most specifically the science fiction of Gibson), and her deft use of the genres of dystopian fiction and science fiction contests traditionally masculine territory much in the way Haraway suggests marginal groups should contest the control of technology.
		But her dystopian fictions claim a place for feminist statement in that traditionally male genre as well, demonstrating that utopian and dystopian visions need not be incompatible.
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	Review Articles: July 1995
		That there have been few studies devoted exclusively to dystopian literature since Hillegas's 1967 book is not surprising inasmuch as the publication of that book was soon followed by a revival of utopian themes in science fiction, which renders moot the issue of the dystopian in recent years.
		If the dystopian were truly an energy or spirit common to much of the literature of the 20th century, one would expect to be shown this impulse at work in texts other than the same familiar dystopias and anti-utopias.
		If the dystopian is "a critical energy or spirit," one characterized by futuristic visions which express reservations about the direction of society, one could perhaps argue that one was describing an (artistic) stance found in disparate societies which were reacting, in one way or another, to the pace and negative impact of modernization.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r66.htm (4053 words)

	Dystopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dystopian society is usually characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of oppressive social control.
		because dystopian literature takes place in the future, it often features technology more advanced than that of contemporary society.
		Usually, the advanced technology is controlled exclusively by the group in power, while the oppressed population is limited to technology comparable to or more primitive than what we have today.
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	Exploring Dystopia: Characteristics of Dystopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dystopian citizens experience a profound feeling of being monitored, shadowed, chased, betrayed or manipulated.
		As a result of this fearful atmosphere, dystopian heroes are not seldom monsters in many respects.
		Dystopian stories frequently take place in landscapes which diminish people, like large cities with mastodontic architecture or vast wastelands devastated by war and pollution.
	hem.passagen.se /replikant/dystopia_characteristics.htm (735 words)

	Fiction or Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As dystopian literature has become more respected and widespread, a wealth of literature has emerged that examines the practical and theoretical basis of dystopian texts, as well as sociological conditions existing in a ‘post-modern’ society that parallel dystopian representations.
		Anyone interested in dystopian literature who is not familiar with this book must read it, as later authors often use it as a reference to their dystopian creations.
		As dystopian and utopian literature are often extrapolations of “real life,” Huxley very well could have meant to include these stereotypes, leaving the reader to reflect on them without the corruption of his own judgment.
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	comparison compare contrast - Comparing Dystopian Distress in Brave New World, Player Piano, and The Giver
		Throughout the genre of dystopian literature, each story has common ambiguous patterns that leave the reader unsure as to specific details at the conclusion.
		Even more enigmatic is a complete lack of conclusion all together; that is, the book concludes so abruptly that the reader is left to infer from her own thoughts and opinions what really happened to the main characters and the rest of society.
		One pattern commonly expressed in the end of dystopian novels is a situation in which foreshadowing throughout the novel gives tantalizing hints of what might be; usually, conclusion clues seem to...
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	Exploring Dystopia: Definition of Dystopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To put it as simply as possible, a dystopian depiction can be described as a dark vision of the future.
		"[...] dystopian fiction looks at totalitarian dictatorship as its prototype, a society that puts its whole population continuously on trial, a society that finds its essence in concentration camps, that is, in disenfranchising and enslaving entire classes of its own citizens, a society that, by glorifying and justifying violence by law, preys upon itself.
		However subjective this issue may be, the aim with a dystopian depiction is to frighten and provoke.
	hem.passagen.se /replikant/dystopia_definition.htm (1011 words)

	dystopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dystopian images are almost invariably images of future society, pointing fearfully at the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction.
		Dystopian images began to proliferate in the last decades of the 19th century.
		Utopian and dystopian images are contrasted in the rival cities of Frankville and Stahlstadt in The Begum's Fortune (1879; trans 1880) by Jules VERNE.
	www.gre.ac.uk /~am03/ff/dystopia.html (1927 words)

	Dystopian Fiction East and West : Table of Contents and Introduction
		If the central drama of the age of faith was the conflict between salvation and damnation by deity, in our secular modern age this drama has been transposed to a conflict between humanity's salvation or damnation by society in the historical arena.
		The correspondence between religious and secular concepts in dystopian fiction is still so strongly felt that, if we examine Nineteen Eighty-four closely as the prototype of the genre, twentieth-century dystopian fiction reveals the underlying structure of a morality play.
		Therefore, before we are to arrive at a comprehensive delineation of the salient characteristics of dystopian fiction as a genre, maybe we should also define the characteristics of a society that is dystopic.
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	Encyclopedia: Dystopia
		List of dystopian comics The Incal by Moebius and Alexandro Jodorowsky starts in a dystopian futuristic city populated largely by apathethic TV junkies.
		This is a list of depictions of dystopian themes in music, TV programmes and games, including computer games and role-playing games.
		Science fiction themes Social fiction (also called political fiction) is sub-genre of science fiction focused on possible development of societies (most often set in near future or a fictional country), very often dominated by totalitarian governments.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dystopia (1499 words)

	dystopian literature - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		...and marriage, many feminist authors have turned to dystopian literature as a vehicle for articulating anti-patriarchal attitudes...the romantic convention of a happy ending with a dystopian moment of loss and separation, she further reinforces...
		Escaping a Dystopian Present: Compensatory and Anticipatory Utopias in Bruce Chatwin's the Viceroy of Ouidah and the Songlines
		The defining feature of dystopian literature is that it denies the appeal of the utopias it satirises...suffering--of crime, war, disease, madness -- in the dystopian society; but this is so obviously a parody of the...
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	Distopia
		In discussing the genre of dystopia it is important to examine the distinction between what I call a "True Dystopia" and something which is merely "dystopian." In a true dystopia it is the dystopian world itself which is the focus and purpose of the piece, the artist's message being expressed by the totalitarian world itself.
		Something which is simply dystopian takes place in a dystopian horrible future, but the dystopia itself is not the focus of the book; more often the characters in it and their story are the focus, making it a dystopian novel.
		For example, the movie "Waterworld" is dystopian, but in no way does the future depicted convey the message of the creators; rather, the plot and characters are the point of the movie.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1634/Distopia.html (2193 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Dystopian Worlds
		In this lesson, students learn about the concept of "dystopia," a nightmarish society in which conditions are extremely bad for most of its inhabitants.
		(See the ARTSEDGE lesson Utopian Visions for a further exploration of this topic.) However, others have explored the more disturbing, opposing vision of a "dystopian" world, in which the majority of inhabitants are oppressed and/or terrorized by a repressive governing body or socioeconomic structure.
		Tell students that many writers have produced cautionary tales, in which humankind is plunged into a society that may look inviting on the surface, but is in reality a nightmarish dystopia.
	www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2346 (1323 words)

	Lois Lowry's Dystopian Novels
		Although she recognizes the somewhat bleak depiction of the future that is characteristic of dystopian literature for young adults, Sambell defends the genre, claiming that its value lies in its severe honesty.
		She argues that dystopian literature warns developing minds of the consequences future generations will endure if the current generation fails to recognize the destructive patterns of current human behavior.
		Totaro begins her article by identifying the differences between a utopia and a dystopia, characterizing a utopia as an idyllic, harmonious world with a threat of suffering, whereas a dystopia is marked by an immense amount of suffering within an otherwise ideal world.
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	123Student
		The town in which David and the rest of shape-thinkers live is deffinatly not a utopia as well as the new land to which they move, Sealand.
		So I can conclude that "The Chrysalids" is neither a utopian nor dystopian novel, but rather an ideal situation for David and his friends.
		They are free to live their life the way it should have been lived and are not forced to hide their gifts.
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	Dystopian visions are real film noir
		It is a computer-created construct, and the real people live out their lives in pods, serving as glorified batteries to provide energy for the advanced computer beings that control things.
		"Gattaca": The most realistic dystopian movie I've seen, "Gattaca" is a slow-paced character drama in which a man born naturally rather than in a genetically engineered test tube seeks to excel in a world where his kind are relegated to lowly tasks.
		Some other dystopian movies worth watching: "Running Man," "Clockwork Orange," "Demolition Man," "Fahrenheit 451," "1984," "The Truman Show," "THX 1138," "Metropolis" and "Soylent Green." Go to the video store and rent them, unless of course a nuclear holocaust, intelligent but surly computers, futuristic androids, evil aliens or nasty government officials get to you first.
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	Utopian And Dystopian Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		final exam for the class was to write our own utopian (or dystopian) short story.
		Kurzweil's exponential rate, the best mirror for these opposing views may be science fiction, said Case...
		For examples of dystopias, see two of George Orwell's books, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, as well as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and any of William Gibson's novels.
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	BBC - h2g2 - The Dystopian Novel - A510922
		If we take this view, the dystopian novel is a comforter to the human psyche; we like to read about death and corruption, as long as we know that it can't happen to us.
		It should perhaps be noted that most authors of dystopian novels choose this option; or at least these are the ones that are still in print.
		The seat of power in a dystopian society can rest with an individual corrupt dictator or a corrupt governmental entity, but the effect is much the same; the individual is crushed and freedom curtailed.
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		Dystopian Fiction East and West - Find your books at the best price with Kelkoo UK
		the most important concepts in dystopian literature, and a most unsettling one...
		K M (1994) The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature.
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	George McKay- Metapropaganda: Self-Reading Dystopian Fiction: Burdekin’s Swastika Night and Orwell’s Nineteen ...
		In each of the dystopian texts quoted above, a potential rebel is handed a book by a figure of authority (a figure who, as we shall see, is in part an author), old ragged books that function as new heroic characters.
		We know these books are out of the ordinary, not least because the leaves of one sound "unlike the rustling of paper," while the print of the other "looked slightly irregular." The introduction of these books transforms the narratives of the books into which they are introduced.
		It's part of the auto-critical impulse of dystopia, in which distinctions between fantasy and realist text are constructed and undermined, in which procedures of political address are employed to expose the dangers of political address, in which extra-textual readers are positioned by a strategy of exploring the problems of textual positioning on intra-textual readers.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/64/mckay.htm (6053 words)

	dystopian novel - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Dystopian fiction is by design inimical to the...utopian pretensions of the utopian novel itself.
		For example, we...12 If the novel is taken as a whole...utopian and the dystopian interpretations...in the long view, dystopian in the short, the...sine qua non of the novel.
		...Training the memory: dystopian history in Konwickis...asserted that a good novel is truer than anything...Warsaw, was in 1979 dystopian fiction of the most...Apocalypse was also a novel apparently blindsided...counterforce to dystopian impulses, the saving...commitment.
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