The European Union as a Totalitarian Nightmare: Dystopian Visions in the Discourse of the UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Based on an analysis of UKIP’s discourse on the EU, particularly that of leader Nigel Farage, this paper argues that the party depicts the EU in dystopian terms; in particular it compares it to dystopian narratives such as Orwell’s 1984, totalitarian communist regimes, Nazi Germany and ‘failed state...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0020 |