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Fictional endstates

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posted on 1999-01-01, 00:00 authored by George DukeGeorge Duke
Studies the intellectual in power striving to realise the universal State or Empire. Examines this theme through the medium of four fictional narratives: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Aldous Huxley's Brave new world, Arthur Koestler's Heart of darkness, and George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. The hypothesis of the inquiry is that all four of these texts provide fictional redescriptions of a crisis of confidence in the Enlightenment ideal of progress.

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vi, 216 leaves ; 30 cm.

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eng

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 1999.

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Ph.D.

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Faculty of Arts and Education

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School of Literary and Communication Studies

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    Orwell, George, 1903-1950 - Criticism and interpretationHuxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 - Criticism and interpretationZamyatin, Yevgeny, 1884-1937 - Criticism and interpretationKoestler, Arthur, 1905- - Criticism and interpretationProgress in literature

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