The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse
Author:   Dr Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Pages:   184
Publication Date:   11 January 2024
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Author:   Dr Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Edition:   HPOD
ISBN:  

9781501375859


ISBN 10:   1501375857
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   11 January 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Monstrous Accumulation 1. Evoking Dread: The Reality of Possibility 2. Baleful Continuities; or, the Desire Called Dystopia 3. Lost in Grand Central: American Gods, Free Trade, and Globalization 4. The Utopia of the Mirror: The Postmodern Mise en abyme 5. Welcome to the Teratocene: Morbid Symptoms at the Present Conjuncture 6. Teratology as Ideology Critique; or, a Monster Under Every Bed 7. The End-of-the-World as World System 8. In the Deserts of the Empire: The Map, the Territory, and the Heterotopian Enclave Conclusion: Gold-Bearing Rubble Bibliography Index

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What better guide could there be than the ever-incisive Tally to this brave new world of gods, monsters, dystopias, apocalypses, tattered maps, gold-bearing rubble, and, well, monsters? Welcome to the Teratocene! * Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature, UWE Bristol, UK, and author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021) *


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Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023); For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011); and Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009). Tally is also the editor of the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series.

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