Course details

Name: ENGL - 114

Title: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
This course explores the relationship between imaginative fiction and revolution—or, in other words, utopias and dystopias. Our focus will be on texts that construct speculative worlds (or particularly speculative versions of the real world) in order to challenge otherwise implacable authorities; but we will also look closely at the anxieties that these texts have about their connection to real social and political change. We’ll traverse a wide range of periods, contexts, and genres of utopian and dystopian literature, asking why - or if - rebellion needs fiction. Assigned reading is likely to include More's Utopia, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, at least one major dystopian novel (Nineteen Eighty-Four, for instance), and Chris Marker's film La Jetee.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

• Class Issues (3d)
• Introduction to Literature (110-114)

Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Is course canceled: No