The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse by Jr, Robert T. Tally

The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate...
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The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse by Jr, Robert T. Tally

The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse

BD$63.87

The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse

BD$63.87
Author: Robert T. Tally Jr
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.

At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture-e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies-have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century.

Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Author: Robert T. Tally Jr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 01/11/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781501375842

About the Author
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023); For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011); and Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009). Tally is also the editor of the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series.


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