Brave+New+World+Research+Project

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= The Assignment: Brave New World Research Handout =

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= Print =
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 * Referenced Works - see "Reserve" cart

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 * Relevant Database Subscriptions (if links don't work, go to the [|library home page] to access)
 * Canadian Reference Centre
 * Literary Reference Centre
 * [|Global Issues in Context]
 * Canadian Points of View
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 * Websites
 * [|The Society for Utopian Studies]
 * [|Somaweb.org]
 * [|Huxley.net]
 * [|HSC Online - Brave New World and Science Fiction]

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 * Websites - Annotated Bibliography
 * **[|http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/writing/annotated-bibliograph]**
 * [|Critically Analyzing Information Sources]

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 * Audio-visual

= Other Suggested Resources =


 * [|Present Awesomely] (Presentation tips)
 * Article by Margaret Atwood, "[|Everybody is Happy Now]"

Literary Contexts in Novels: Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" By: Sloboda, Noel, Literary Contexts in Novels: Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World', Database:Literary Reference Center

"In the ** World ** State, culture has not just been supplanted by alternatives; it has been eradicated. All of the major museums and libraries have been torched, and all books "published before A.F. 150" have been banned (51). Next to nothing that would lead to contemplation or inspire the imagination remains. By preventing people from reflecting upon their lives — and from dreaming — the ** World ** State keeps people rooted in the moment. One of the hypnopadeaic maxims Lenina recites underscores this point: "Was and will make me ill […] I take a gramme and only am" (104). The narrator renders the ** World ** State's emphasis on the present and attendant disregard for culture in sarcastic language. With the "whisk" of a hand, it appears, art, learning, and history have been swept away:" code format="ct" "Whisk — and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus?  Whisk — and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jerusalem and the Middle Kingdom — all were gone.  Whisk — the  place where Italy  had been was empty.  Whisk, the cathedrals, whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal." code media type="custom" key="24816714"