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PS Utopian and Dystopian Literature (AE_PSTopL)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg
- Details
- Proseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Modulzugehörigkeit
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature) Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen: Zwischenmodul L-UF Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul Literature)
- Contents
- In this seminar, we will focus on the English history of utopian and dystopian writing. After analysing Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), we will study Sir Francis Bacon’s utopian concept of science in New Atlantis (1627). Whereas these early texts may be looked upon as ‘utopias of space’, a shift towards ‘utopias of time can be discovered in the second half of the 19th Century, among them William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890) and H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895). Towards the 20th Century, the descriptions of other unknown worlds reveal a dystopian nature. In class we will read three classical negative utopias: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1931), and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962). The seminar will end with a discussion of Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel Never Let Me Go (2005).
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 16.3.2020, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 18.4.2020, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)
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