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In the early decades of the twentieth century a certain optimism surrounded the act of creativity. Formal innovation, linguistic experiment and a thematics inspired by the new disciplines of psychology, sociology and anthropology led modernist writers to view the imagination as a conduit of higher understanding.
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Hammond, A. (2017). The Art of Dystopia. In: Cold War Stories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61548-6_4
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