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Manuel Benjamin Becker

Forms and Functions of Dystopia in Margaret Atwood's Novels

"The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake"

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This book analyses the forms and functions of dystopian writing in Margaret Atwood's novels The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. After the great success of The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is Atwood's latest brilliant dystopia. Both novels provide a shockingly bleak and yet satirically funny outlook on futuristic societies. For the analysis of the novels as dystopian writing, first of all a definition is required of both dystopia and utopia. This leads to a consideration of the aspects of dystopian writing that structure the analysis of the novels. The central aspects of dystopian writing are social organisation, the interaction betw… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-639-00746-6
  • EAN: 9783639007466
  • Produktnummer: 36355089
  • Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 108 S.
  • Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.6 cm 179 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 179

Über den Autor


M.B.Becker studied English and Philosophy at the University of Cologne and graduated in 2007. In 2003 he received a scholarship with the PAD and the British Council to spend a year in England as an assistant teacher. Presently he is teaching at the Europaschule Köln.

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