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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 43–60

Chapter 3
Modelling an unethical mind

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: The dystopian imagination
  • 2.Reading dystopian minds
    • 2.1Text World Theory and mind-modelling
  • 3.The refracted text-worlds of Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad”
  • 4. Mind-modelling the narrator
  • 5.Conclusion: Projecting and resisting text-world ethics
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 8 February 2021
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