This article examines two recent examples of feminist dystopias: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home the Living God (2017) and Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks (2018). True to their genre, these novels act as warnings, denouncing patriarchal control over women’s bodies capitalistic over-exploitation nature. Strategically positioned between dystopia realism, they recover revise generic thematic conventions prop...

In his article, "How is a Genre Created? Five Combinatory Hypotheses," Johan F. Hoorn discusses that in genre theory, the creation of a genre is usually envisioned as a complex selection procedure in which several factors play an equivocal role. First, he advances that genre usually is investigated at the level of the phenomenon. For instance, questions may drawn on the effects of social status...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

Background: Striae are linear atrophic plaques associated with overstretching the skin (commonly called stretch marks). Urogenital dystopia is the displacement of a pelvic organ from its original site due to alterations in or relaxation of the pelvic supporting structures. Histopathologic studies have revealed similarities in the irregularity of the distribution patterns of collagen fibers loca...

In this article, an analysis is made of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and MaddAddam (2013) from a gendered generic perspective. was one the novels that marked dystopian turn in 1980s writing fiction, while is, for some critics, feminist critical dystopia which ending retains hope better future. Consequently, both belong priori to specific branch genre: novel. However, ambiguity o...

In this paper, we discuss the notion of genre as a basis for addressing the problem of context representation in digital preservation. We outline several reference points for the notion of genre. This includes a review of diplomatic principles that can support and enhance the power of genre as a key to capture information about context relations. Further, we discuss the impact of open genre mod...

The article addresses issues surrounding emotion regulation inthe cult film Blade Runner. emotional development of the replicants isanalyzed regarding social conditions and stigma associated with functioning in an ultra- c apitalist dystopia. This includes aproposal for practical use ofthe psychological knowledge toconduct workshops based on concept ofpsychological work film.

The rapid progress of AI technology prompts British novelists to speculate what a technologically advanced Britain will be like: utopia or dystopia? Or somewhere in between? Ian McEwan shows his concern over these questions Machines Like Me (2019). It is suggested that this novel mainly reveals people’s technophobia and presents techno-dystopian world, for which many people are ill-prepared. Te...

As the World Wide Web continues to grow exponentially, researchers and search engine companies continue to look for techniques that will improve the quality of search results. One method that has been suggested is to classify Web pages by their type of genre and use this information to focus a search more narrowly or to rank search results. However, the growth of the World Wide Web has been mat...