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A do-it-yourself dystopia : the Americanization of Big Brother / Steven Carter.
Van Pelt Library PS374.D96 C37 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Steven, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Dystopias in literature.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- History.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four.
- Orwell, George.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- Civilization.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Influence.
- American fiction--English influences.
- Dystopias.
- Genre:
- Dystopias.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 161 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
- Summary:
- The essence of life in an oligarchy like George Orwell presents in '1984' is that freedom of choice is virtually non-existent. But what happens when so many trivial and meaningless choices inundate a culture such as our own and freedom itself becomes devalued? In 'A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia', through a variety of essays, Steven Carter addresses this and other issues in a wide-ranging search for hidden oligarchies of the American self.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Orwell Contra Huxley xi
- Chapter 1 Democracy and Doublethink 1
- Chapter 2 Newspeak for a New Millennium 29
- Chapter 3 The Despair of Possibility 43
- Chapter 4 The Bones of "Saint" Hermann Goering 55
- Intermission: A Country of Dreadful Joy
- Intermission I TV and the Telescreen 67
- Intermission II On Being Silent 77
- Chapter 5 The Masks of Passion 83
- Chapter 6 Alexander's Bitter Tears 95
- Chapter 7 Leopards in the Temple 113
- L'Envoi: The Rites of Memory 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-157) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761822712
- OCLC:
- 49226253
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