DC pole | Wartość | Język |
dc.contributor.advisor | Łęcki, Krzysztof | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | Ćwikła, Paweł | - |
dc.contributor.author | Banaś, Maria | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-23T09:38:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-23T09:38:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/16084 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study is a sociological analysis of Margaret Atwood's novels, in the
perspective of literary dystopias. Therefore, the key issues are the contexts that clearly and
unequivocally build the image of the social world, read through the prism of the sociology of
literature. In the selection of the research subject, the public reception of the analyzed novels
is of particular importance; their often turbulent reception proves the extraordinary timeliness
of the problems discussed. The issues presented in the analysis focus on the following
questions:
1. How and to what extent are classical and contemporary theories of totalitarianism reflected
in the novels of the Canadian writer?
2. What is the structure of the social world and what types of individual adaptation to the
challenges of social reality do individuals choose, and what are the reasons behind it?
3. What types of social bonds dominate within social microstructures?
4. What is the social position of women in Atwood’s dystopian novels, and how is it justified?
The theoretical part of the dissertation details the chosen concept of investigating
literary dystopias, outlines the status of the sociology of literature as a sociological subdiscipline,
and discusses the basic assumptions of the two sociological concepts that constitute
the theoretical background for this study (Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective, and
the types of individual adaptation of individuals to social structure by Robert K. Merton). It
also presents the assumptions of the perspective adopted in the work – on the one hand, the
most general assumptions of qualitative analysis, and on the other hand, the dissertation looks
at analyses and interpretations in the sociology of literature – classical (György Lukács,
Lucien Goldman), also contemporary (Krzysztof Łęcki, Paweł Ćwikła).
The research interests include the issues of the anthropology of dystopia, as well as the
terminological and categorization complexity of utopia/dystopia. An important element of the
analysis is also a utopian project considered as a thought experiment and its significance in
the dynamics of social processes.
The last section of the theoretical part problematizes the totalitarian perspective. Classical
concepts of totalitarianism are presented, from Plato to contemporary thought: Hannah
Arendt, Zbigniew Brzeziński and Carl Friedrich, to the systemization proposed by Jacob L. Talmon. In the micro-sociological perspective, the analyses refers to the model of a total
institution by Erving Goffman.
The next chapter opens an empirical part. In reference to the systematization proposed
by Ralf Dahrendorf, the characteristics of the utopian vision of reality are sought in Atwood's
novels, in order to clarify the fundamental properties of the total prospective seen in the
analysed works and, in particular, those that seem to dominate. In addition, by describing the
model of social structure recognized in The Handmaid’s Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy,
representative characters are selected from the novels to analyze the types of individual
adaptation to changing social conditions. Another empirical section of the work discusses the
role of a woman in the Atwood’s world. These reflections focus on the assumption of
patriarchal impairment of women in the analyzed dystopias. At the end of the empirical part,
the author presents the vision of the (new) man in the discussed dystopian narratives. The key
aspect of the analysis is to distinguish the Crakers and Gardeners, who exemplify the new
quality of social microstructures as well as the Handmaids illustrating the properties of (new)
women.
The last chapter of the dissertation compares Margaret Atwood's narrative with classic
anti-utopias – George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World – which belong
to the most influential dystopian novels of the 20th century. This part specifies the place of
the total order described by Margaret Atwood on the axis connecting Orwell's 1984 and
Huxley's Brave New World. | pl_PL |
dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
dc.publisher | Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski | pl_PL |
dc.subject | antyutopie - w literaturze | pl_PL |
dc.subject | socjologia literatury | pl_PL |
dc.subject | Atwood, Margaret (1939- ) | pl_PL |
dc.subject | literatura - 20-21 w. | pl_PL |
dc.title | Dystopie we współczesnej literaturze pięknej : socjologiczna analiza zjawiska na przykładzie dystopijnych powieści Margaret Atwood | pl_PL |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis | pl_PL |
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