polska: Political fiction

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Rhetoric and Fascism in Jack London's The Iron Heel , Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here , and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America

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Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore extreme forms of social and political structures. A utopia is a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. A dystopia offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Some novels depict both types of society to more directly contrast their properties. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other types of speculative fiction. Utopian literature is of two basic types. Some describe imagined societies of the future to be desired or simply predicted. Others pro…

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Class Struggle: Socialist Writings and The Iron Heel. This chapter examines key features of the author’s political and socialist thought. It offers thematically related analyses of the novel Before Adam and three politically weighted stories—“The Strength of the Strong,” “Goliah,” “The Apostate”—that confront economic exploitation and inequity. This chapter also presents a reading of London’s most overtly political novel, The Iron Heel in which London develops a more idealized Nietzschean superman figure in his protagonist Ernest Everhard. Lucid as Everhard’s arguments may appear, his revolutionary socialist agenda encounters substantial resistance, and these challenges register some of Lon…

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The Sexualized Proletariat in Jack London’s The Iron Heel

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It Can’t Happen Here <i>(1935): Sinclair Lewis</i>

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What Can Happen Here?: Philip Roth, Sinclair Lewis, and the Lessons of Fascism in the American Liberal Imagination

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&gt;i&lt;The Iron Heel&gt;/i&lt; de Jack London: consciência do presente e profecia do fascismo

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The Iron Heel, de Jack London, premier roman d’anticipation politique ?

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Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. George Orwell coined the term doublethink as part of the fictional language of Newspeak in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, which are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area mostly located around the equator. All that Oceania's citizens know about the world is whatever the Party wants them to know, so how the world evolved into the three states is unknown; and it is also unknown to the reader whether they actually exist in the novel's reality, or whether they are a storyline invented by the Party to advance social control. The nations appear to have emerged from nuclear warfare and civil dissolution over 20 years between 1945 and 1965, in a post-war world…

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The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London. Published in 1908, it recounts a tumultuous period in the first half of 20th-century America in which a rising socialist movement threatens to win national elections and take power, but then is crushed by a corporate-controlled oligarchy known as the "Iron Heel". The events in the book are told via a long-lost manuscript, written by the wife of a key socialist leader, that is discovered and analyzed centuries later. In addition to inspiring future political novels such as It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Iron Heel has been cited as an early example of social science fictio…

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The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of consensus is reflected in debates about the genre's history, particularly over determining its exact origins. Some writers have identified precursors to the genre in ancient literature such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (earliest Sumerian text versions c. 2150–2000 BCE). Others argue that science fiction only became possible sometime between the 17th and early 19th centuries, following the Scientific Revolution and major discoveries in astronomy, physics, and mathematics. Science fiction developed and boomed in the 20th century, as the de…