Overview
- Takes an innovative approach to categorising the dystopian genre
- Provides the first comprehensive stylistic analysis of 21st century dystopian literature
- Includes a discussion of dystopia across evolving and emerging platforms such as video games, digital fiction
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style (PSLLS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice. Drawing upon stylistic, cognitive-poetic and narratological approaches, the work proposes a stylistic profile of dystopia, arguing for a reader-led discussion of genre that takes into account reader subjectivity and personal conceptualisations of prototypicality. In examining and identifying those aspects of language that characterise dystopian narratives and the experience of reading dystopian fictions, the work discusses in particular the manipulation and construction of dystopian languages, the conceptualisation of dystopian worlds, the reading of dystopian minds, the projection of dystopian ethics, the unreliability of dystopian refraction, and the evolution and hybridity of the dystopian genre.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jessica Norledge is part of the Applied English Team at the University of Nottingham, UK, where she teaches across Literary Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She specialises in the cognitive poetics of emotion and the language of dystopia, having published on the dystopian short story, dystopian epistolary, dystopian minds, and the experience of reading dystopian fiction.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Language of Dystopia
Authors: Jessica Norledge
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93103-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93102-5Published: 30 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93105-6Published: 31 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93103-2Published: 29 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-8265
Series E-ISSN: 2731-8273
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Stylistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Contemporary Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Genre