Construction and Comprehension of Fictional Dystopia: A Cognitive Study of Anna Burns's Milkman

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Farsi, Roghayeh, Hallaji, Abbas Ali
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: dystopia; positioning; Stockwell; categorization; Burns; van Leeuwen
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1907/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_204_20Regular_20section_20__20Farsi_20and_20Hallaji.pdf

This paper investigates how fictional dystopia is constructed and comprehended, relying upon the cognitive operations of categorization and positioning. It argues that characters develop out of tensions between self-aligned categories and others-aligned ones. The argument is carried out through a de...