The nonconformers pause and say: "There's gotta be something more" / Coleman Carroll Myron -- Political repression and sexual freedom in Brave New World and 1984 / Gavin Miller -- Oedipus against Freud: humanism and the problem of desire in Brave New World / Bradley W. Buchanan -- Some kind of Brave New World: humans, society and nature in the dystopian interpretations of Huxley and Orwell / Angelo Arciero -- "Laboring for a Brave New World: our Ford and the Epsilons" / Scott Peller -- Words have to mean something more: folkloric reading in Brave New World / Sean A. Witters -- Brave New World and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / John Coughlin -- "O brave new world that has no poets in it": Shakespeare and scientific utopia in Brave New World / Paul Smethurst -- The birth of tragedy and the Dionysian principle in Brave New World / Kim Kirkpatrick -- To reflect, to sit down: the Hinzutretende and Huxleyan characters in Horkheimer's and Adorno's philosophy / Angela Holzer -- Brave New World as prototypical musicalized fiction / Theo Garneau -- Deconstructing the savage reservation in Brave New World / Katherine Toy Miller -- The eternal now of Brave New World: Huxley, Joseph Campbell, and The perennial philosophy / Robert Combs -- "Everyone belongs to everyone else": the influence of Brave New World on cinema / James Fisher.
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"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 today's trivialization of society as a path to excess and dictatorship by pacification"--Provided by publisher.
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Huxley, Aldous,1894-1963-- Philosophy.
Huxley, Aldous,1894-1963-- Political and social views.
Huxley, Aldous,1894-1963., Brave new world.
Huxley-- Aldous-- 1894-1963-- Brave new world.
Huxley-- Aldous-- 1894-1963-- Philosophy.
Huxley-- Aldous-- 1894-1963-- Political and social views.