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dc.contributor.advisor | Granofsky, Ronald | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Valentine, Elizabeth Susan | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:52:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:52:54Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-08-17 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1998-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/5912 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 6936 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2168409 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10900 | - |
dc.description.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> | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.title | The Protagonist's Response to Power and Language in the Dystopian Novel | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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