| Description |
116 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Bloom's guides |
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Bloom's guides.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: User?s Guide -- Introduction -- Biographical Sketch -- The Story Behind the Story -- List of Characters -- Plot Summary -- Critical Extracts -- Peter Bowering on Huxley?s Use of Soma -- Jerome Meckier on Huxley?s Ironic Utopia -- Laurence Brander on the ?Mass Community? in Brave New World -- Peter Firchow on Satirical versus Futuristic Readings of Brave New World -- Ira Grushow on Brave New World and The Tempest -- Peter M. Larsen on Huxley?s Use of ?Synthetic Myths? -- Robert S. Baker on the Evolution of Huxley?s Philosophy -- Rafeeq O. McGiveron on the Literary and Political Allusions Behind Huxley?s Choice of Names -- Guinevera A. Nance on the Limits of the Heroic in Brave New World -- Malinda Snow on Huxley?s Use of Thomas Gray?s ?Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard? -- Works by Aldous Huxley -- Annotated Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Peter Bowering, Ira Grushow, Robert S. Baker, and Guinevera A. Nance |
| Bibliography |
"Works by Aldous Huxley": pages 101-103 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-107) and index |
| Subject |
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave new world.
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Dystopias in literature.
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| Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| LC no. |
2003023901 |
| ISBN |
0791075664 |
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0791077659 paperback |
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