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BL
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881226
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| Title & Author
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Huxley's Brave new world : : essays /\ edited by David Garrett Izzo and Kim Kirkpatrick.
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| Publication Statement
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Jefferson, N.C. :: McFarland,, ©2008.
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| Page. NO
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viii, 188 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0786436832
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: 9780786436835
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Huxley, Aldous,1894-1963-- Political and social views.
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Huxley, Aldous,1894-1963., Brave new world.
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Huxley-- Aldous-- 1894-1963-- Brave new world.
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Huxley-- Aldous-- 1894-1963-- Philosophy.
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Huxley-- Aldous-- 1894-1963-- Political and social views.
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Huxley, Aldous,1894-1963.
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Huxley, Aldous.
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Dystopias in literature.
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Dystopias in literature.
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Philosophy.
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Political and social views.
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Brave new world (Huxley, Aldous)
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Brave new world.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.912
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| LC Classification
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PR6015.U9B675 2008
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| Added Entry
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Izzo, David Garrett.
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Kirkpatrick, Kim,1962-
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