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Cojocaru, Daniel. "Violence and dystopia : mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary Western dystopian narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f3f2848d-d349-4dcd-8bff-810010a2e8e3.

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Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-

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Taylor, Deborah. "Reading utopian narratives in a dystopian time." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8014.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Varsamopoulou, Maria. "Before Utopia : the function of sacrifice in dystopian narratives." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/3771/.

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The aim of this study is to illustrate the ways in which the practice and logic of sacrifice in dystopian narratives is anti-utopian. There is a dearth of research on the dystopian fiction, very little which investigates ethical issues and none which consider sacrificial ethics. In the first half of the thesis, the concept of dystopia is delineated against definitions of utopia, concrete utopia and utopian literature. In the second theoretical chapter, major and minor theories of sacrifice are examined for their normative bias in order to question their function in practice. Two important lite

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Fatica, Olga <1987&gt. "Re-appropriating the Body and the Machine. Technology in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Narratives." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2332.

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Taschler, Brigitte <1976&gt. "The representation of violence in five dystopian film narratives : myth, catharsis and adaptation in '28 Days Later', '28 Weeks Later', 'Children of Men', 'The Road' and 'V for Vendetta' : five case studies." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1154.

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La mia tesi si occupa della rappresentazione della violenza in cinque racconti filmici distopici: 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Children of Men (2006), The Road (2009) e V for Vendetta (2006). La prima parte del lavoro riguarda l’adattamento, cioè le trasformazioni della violenza nel passaggio da un medium a un altro con particolare attenzione ai sistemi semiotici del romanzo, del fumetto e del film. La parte teorica viene illustrata attraverso l’analisi comparata di scene emblematiche prese dalle opere in questione. La seconda parte del lavoro è incentrata sui film come opere a

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Bauer, Robert B. "Resisting the Resistance: The Emancipation of Students from the Hidden Curriculum of Commodified Resistant Narratives in Young Adult Dystopian Film Through Open Pedagogical Space and Culture-Jamming." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5621.

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Young Adult Dystopian Film exercises an influence over young people of which they are not aware. As part of a structure of domination these films teach students to participate in their own oppression by the capitalist system. The film industry maintains a hidden curriculum like that utilized in school classrooms to conceal the oppression from the masses. One particularly effective means is the portrayal of resistance against oppression in the narratives of the YA Dystopian Film. Young people are drawn to that narrative and end up supporting the structure of domination financially and ideol

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Bakker, Barbara. "Arabic dystopias in the 21st century : A study on 21st century Arabic dystopian fictionthrough the analysis of four works of Arabic dystopian narrative." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Arabiska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28495.

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Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the Arabic literary scene. This relatively new genre has been experiencing an uplift since the beginning of the 21 st century and many works that have been defined dystopias have been published and translated into English in the last 10 – 15 years. In order to find out their main features, Claeys’s categorization of literary dystopias is applied and a thematic analysis is carried out on four Arabic dystopian works of narrative, written by authors from different parts of the Arabic world. The analys

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Bakker, Barbara. "Arabic dystopias in the 21st century : A study on 21st century Arabic dystopian fiction through the analysis of four works of Arabic dystopian narrative." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Arabiska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27968.

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Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the Arabic literary scene. This relatively new genre has been experiencing an uplift since the beginning of the 21st century and many works that have been defined dystopias have been published and translated into English in the last 10 – 15 years. In order to find out their main features, Claeys’s categorization of literary dystopias is applied and a thematic analysis is carried out on four Arabic dystopian works of narrative, written by authors from different parts of the Arabic world. The analysi

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Edgren, Justin. "ANIMATING DYSTOPIA: AN ANALYSIS OF MY ANIMATED FILM, P19." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1099.

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In this paper, I discuss the modern socio-technological state of global social control and its representation in my stop motion animated film P19. I will compare the ways in which social control has changed and remained the same from September 11, 2001 to the present. I will discuss the surveillance and control grids permeating all communication networks and how humans are interacting with them. I will conclude with an analysis of some of my techniques and processes in stop motion animation.

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Divine, 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.

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This study serves as an introduction to three recent narratives in Spanish Science Fiction. While this literary genre has long been read in Spain in translation, it is only recently that Sci-Fi has been successful as a popular literature produced by native authors. Álex de la Iglesia, Gabriela Bustelo and Rafael Reig have worked in realist and genre fiction through their careers but chose to use Science Fiction to speak of the rapidly changing space of Madrid. Their criticism is centered on the changes to the physical, social, economic and political landscape of Madrid post-1992. My analysis i

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Storment, Ryan Lee. "Other spaces, other voices heterotopic spaces in island narratives /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/storment/StormentR0507.pdf.

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Welser, 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.

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Nilsson, Sara. "Hjältinnan och genusordningen : En narrativ analys av manliga och kvinnliga stereotyper i dystopin Divergenttrilogin och dess litteraturdidaktiska möjligheter i undervisningen." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68141.

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Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka gestaltningen av manliga och kvinnliga stereotyper, samt genusordningen i den populära ungdomstrilogin Divergent (2012–2014), skriven av Veronica Roth. Det är viktigt att undersöka hur litteraturen förmedlar kulturella förställningar om manliga och kvinnliga stereotyper för att kunna problematisera och bearbeta innehållet i litteraturundervisningen. För att analysera materialet valdes en kvalitativ narratologisk textanalys med fokus på berättarperspektivet. För att strukturera upp materialet användes Maria Nikolajeva (2017) schema över manliga och kvinnli

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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.

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Questa tesi indaga la produzione distopica nella narrativa statunitense del ventunesimo secolo. Utilizzando un impianto metodologico derivante dalla sociologia, si teorizza una correlazione tra la crisi del mito della Frontiera e dell'Eccezionalismo americano e il rinnovato interesse per i mondi distopici. La prima parte è dedicata alla definizione e all'inquadramento del concetto di distopia e alla descrizione dello status dei miti americani. La seconda parte si concentra sulle analisi testuali: i tre capitoli che la compongono riflettono i sottogeneri della distopia politica, tecnologica ed

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Saldías, 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.

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La atención histórica de la crítica en torno al fenómeno de la literatura distópica ha estado centrada generalmente sobre las producciones provenientes del mundo anglosajón, en particular sobre los tres distópicos clásicos: Aldous Huxley, George Orwell y Ray Bradbury, inauguradores del género en cuestión. La academia hispánica, por contraste, rara vez se ha preocupado por examinar la extensión de la influencia distópica en el territorio español ni, mucho menos, su configuración específica en la literatura ibérica. Atendiendo a esto, la hipótesis central de este trabajo busca plantear que efect

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Eliasson, David. "Sverige 2112 : Ett narrativ om hur arkitekturen kan utvecklas om världen går igenom stora förändringar på grund av klimatförändringarna. En linjär och vertikal stad." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-95904.

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Om världen till följd av klimatförändringarna blir mycket varmare kommer förutsättningarna för hur vi planerar städer, infrastruktur och jordbruk helt att vändas upp och ner. De delar av världen som idag står för världens livsmedelsproduktion kommer vid bara några graders förändring bli obrukbara som betes och odlingsmark. Dessa förändringar kan komma att starta konflikter, och stora flyktingströmmar som tillsammans med förändrade klimatzoner helt kommer att rita om världskartan. i Skandinavien är det då troligt att vi behöver bygga samhällen och städer för miljontals nya immigranter, och dett

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Wilder, Shannon O'Brien. "A narrative of synthetic fear visualizing dystopia in a gaming world /." 2006. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/wilder%5Fshannon%5Fo%5F200612%5Fphd.

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Fraga, Daniel Anthony Gabriel. "Pós-arquitectura: poder, espaço, pós-humanidade." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/35167.

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Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Arquitectura (área de especialização em Cultura Arquitectónica)<br>Esta dissertação reúne algumas ideias que, no seu conjunto, propõem um entendimento sobre o que pode ser “Arquitectura”. “Pós- Arquitectura” será o termo usado para lhe fazer referência. O objectivo, para além de expandir o campo contextual daquilo que tradicionalmente se entende por “Arquitectura”, é dar-lhe a possibilidade de contemplar um maior poder no condicionamento, manipulação e definição de indivíduos. Serão utilizadas para isto noções e ideias disciplinarmente diversas, ist

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(11186181), Christina M. McCarter. "HINGED, BOUND, COVERED: THE SIGNIFYING POTENTIAL OF THE MATERIAL CODEX." Thesis, 2021.

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<div> <p>The idea of “the book” overflows with extraneous significance: books are presented as windows, gateways, vessels, lighthouses, and gardens. Books speak to us and feed us, and they are a method of escape. The book has long represented much more than a static, hinged, bound, covered object inscribed with words. Even when a book is not performing an elaborate, imaginative function, the word “book” very often signifies the text it holds or even the text’s author: You can open <i>The Bluest Eye</i> or carry Toni Morrison in your bag. Fourteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer invokes a “b

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