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Informationen zum Autor David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Kim Kirkpatrick is an assistant professor of English Literature and Theory at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Klappentext These essays reiterate the influence of Brave New World as a literary and philosophical document and describe how Huxley took the events of the world up to 1932 and forecast todays trivialization of society as a path to excess and dictatorship by pacification. Zusammenfassung Though ""Brave New World""! was published in 1932! many elements of the novel's dystopic future now seem an eerily familiar part of life in the 21st century. This work features essays that reiterate the influence of ""Brave New World"" as a literary and philosophical document and describes how Aldous Huxley forecast the problems of late capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction (DAVID GARRETT IZZO) 1. The Nonconformers Pause and Say: "There's Gotta Be Something More" (COLEMAN CARROLL MYRON) 2. Political Repression and Sexual Freedom in Brave New World and 1984 (GAVIN MILLER) 3. Oedipus Against Freud: Humanism and the Problem of Desire in Brave New World (BRADLEY W. BUCHANAN) 4. Some Kind of Brave New World: Humans, Society and Nature in the Dystopian Interpretations of Huxley and Orwell (ANGELO ARCIERO) 5. "Laboring for a Brave New World: Our Ford and the Epsilons" (SCOTT PELLER) 6. Words Have to Mean Something More: Folkloric Reading in Brave New World (SEAN A. WITTERS) 7. Brave New World and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (JOHN COUGHLIN) 8. "O brave new world that has no poets in it": Shakespeare and Scientific Utopia in Brave New World (PAUL SMETHURST) 9. The Birth of Tragedy and the Dionysian Principle in Brave New World (KIM KIRKPATRICK) 10. To Reflect, to Sit Down: The Hinzutretende and Huxleyan Characters in Horkheimer's and Adorno's Philosophy (ANGELA HOLZER) 11. Brave New World as Prototypical Musicalized Fiction (THEO GARNEAU) 12. Deconstructing the Savage Reservation in Brave New World (KATHERINE TOY MILLER) 13. The Eternal Now of Brave New World: Huxley, Joseph Campbell, and The Perennial Philosophy (ROBERT COMBS) 14. "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else": The Influence of Brave New World on Cinema (JAMES FISHER) About the Contributors Index ...
