The Language Of Dystopia

Acknowledgements
List of Texts
Chapter 1—Towards a Poetics of Dystopia
Chapter 2—Language in Dystopia
Chapter 3—Building Dystopian Worlds
Chapter 4—Reading Dystopian Minds
Chapter 5—Dystopian Ethics
Chapter 6—Unreliability and Dystopian Refraction
Chapter 7—Reconceiving the Dystopian Genre
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Towards a Poetics of Dystopia
	The Origins of Dystopia
	Mapping the Dystopian Impulse
		The Anti-Utopia
		The Critical Utopia
		The Critical Dystopia
	Dystopia, Science Fiction and Satire
		Cognitive Estrangement and Dystopian Worlds
	Re-evaluating Dystopian Prototypicality
	The Evolution of Dystopian Style
	References
2 Language in Dystopia
	Language(s) in Literature
	Conlangs and the Dystopian Imagination
		Dialectal Extrapolation
		Dystopian Antilanguages
	Linguistic Relativity: Dystopia and Whorf
	Languages of/in the Future
	References
3 Building Dystopian Worlds
	The Text-Worlds of Dystopia
	Articulations of Dystopian Time
		Conceptualising Futures Past
	The Dystopian Landscape
	The Text-World–Discourse-World Relationship
	Immersion and Dystopia in the Mind
	References
4 Reading Dystopian Minds
	Examining Dystopian Consciousness
		Mind-Style
		Theory of Mind and Mind-Modelling
	Collective Experiences of/in Dystopia
	The Dystopian Social Mind
	Modelling the Dystopian Collective
	Embodying and Resisting the Dystopian Social Mind
	References
5 Dystopian Ethics
	An Ethics of Reading
	Feminist Dystopianism
		Dystopian Realism
		Conceptualising Paratopia
	An Ethical Feedback Loop
	Dystopian Resonance
	References
6 Unreliability and Dystopian Refraction
	Ecodystopian Extrapolation
	A World Unknown
		Detecting the Dystopian Lie
	Unreliable Futures
	Unreliability and World-Replacement
	The (Un)reliability of Dystopian Storytelling
	References
7 Reconceiving the Dystopian Genre
	Evolving Platforms: From Televisual Dystopia to Ballet
	Dystopian Hybridity
	The Young-Adult Dystopia
	The Future of Dystopia
	References
References
Index