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Towards a Poetics of Dystopia

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The Language of Dystopia

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In this chapter, I map the history of the dystopian genre, contextualising my research in relation to its critical backdrop and exploring those key literary and socio-cultural influences which spurred the establishment and development of the dystopian form.

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Norledge, J. (2022). Towards a Poetics of Dystopia. In: The Language of Dystopia. Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93103-2_1

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