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Utopian Fiction for Optimists, Dreamers, Revolutionaries and Skeptics - Einzelansicht

Veranstaltungsart Seminar Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS 2 Semester SoSe 2021
Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik   Sprache englisch
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Belegungsfrist 06.04.2021 - 10.05.2021

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Seminar Fr 10:00 bis 12:00 wöchentlich 16.04.2021 bis 23.07.2021  Online.Veranstaltung Dr. phil. Adamik   30
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This course will introduce participants to the utopian genre, to fiction that served authors to plan and discuss wholesale outlines for a better state (or even: world) order.

Participants will read excerpts from texts from the 16th to the 20th century. We will engage with questions such as:

  • what is a utopia?
  • is planning a better society a useful endeavor? Why was the utopian genre 'en vogue' in different historical periods?
  • how are utopianism and colonialism related?
  • aren't dystopias more realistic and thus more useful to society?
  • Why did 1984 reappear as a bestseller when Trump was elected?

Materials will be provided via moodle; the course will meet biweekly via zoom.

 

Literatur

Preliminary reading list (these will be excerpts)

16th century: Thomas More, Utopia

17th century: Margarete Cavendish, The Blazing World

19th century: Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward; Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood

20th century: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; George Orwell, 1984; Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia; Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Leistungsnachweis

Students will prepare short presentations (ideally a short video/prezi/podcast), to be uploaded towards the end of the term, and be asked to submit a peer review on the uploaded materials. Both, academic and didactic merit of these presentations will be evaluated.


Strukturbaum
Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2021 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024