The Rhetoric of Dystopia: Prophecies and Provocations in the Anthropocene

by Christopher Carter

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of "emergent metalepsis" that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events, blurring the boundary between the storyworld and the world of reception. Christopher Carter treats dystopia as rhetoric that shapes collective identities while speeding across platforms and geopolitical borders, at once critiquing and exemplifying the circulation of power relations through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666941484
• ISBN13: 9781666941487
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"