Readers and text worlds of dystopia

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Readers and text worlds of dystopia

This thesis is an exploration of reading styles and stylistic patterning in relation to dystopian fiction. Situated within an empirical cognitive poetics, the study draws upon naturalistic reader-response data, with specific reference to Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Arwa
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	dystopia reader-response cognitive poetics narratology empirical stylistics Atwood Vonnegut text world theory
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45084/

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