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Title: | The Protagonist's Response to Power and Language in the Dystopian Novel |
Authors: | Valentine, Elizabeth Susan |
Advisor: | Granofsky, Ronald |
Department: | English |
Keywords: | English Language and Literature;English Language and Literature |
Publication Date: | Sep-1998 |
Abstract: | <p>This thesis explores the role of the protagonist in response to power and language in the dystopian novel. I attempt to show that a novel may be classified as dystopian if it fulfills certain factors that posit language and discourse as fundamental devices of power. These three main factors are as follows: the establishment of an official, totalitarian language, evidence of opposing discourses, and the representation of the protagonist as a figure who deconstructs social reality. My primary texts are Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10900 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/5912 6936 2168409 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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