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HS The Narrative Dystopia (HSND) [Import]- Lecturer
- Dr. Peter Maurits
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 8:15 - 9:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- The seminar will be conducted in a remote-learning format. All students registered for this class on meincampus will be contacted and automatically signed up for the class on StudOn.
Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature" BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 5: "Aufbaumodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs
MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 4: "Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
- Contents
- Nuclear disasters, civil wars, ecological destruction: the narrative dystopia has been exceedingly popular over the last decade and nothing seems to point to the genre’s decline. Yet this was not always so. Dystopian literature and film thrived during the 1930s and during the 1950s, but it declined in the 1960s and remained relatively unpopular until the 1990s. The questions that this raises is how we can understand the narrative dystopia relative to its historical contexts; why do people write/produce dystopias during some moments and not others, what is the work that the narrative dystopia does, and how does it do it? These are the main concerns of this course.
In pursuit of these questions, we shall read and view a large number of dystopian short stories, novels, series, and films, from the 19th to the 21st century. The focus shall be on the way in which social relations are imagined in the dystopian setting. Authors include P.K. Dick, R. Bradbury, A.B. Dodd, and U.K. Le Guin. We will see how the genre may function as a progressive social commentary, a form of exploration of the yet-to-come, and as a way to imagine a living-together with the so-called ‘Other.’ Yet we shall also see how the genre is used for its opposite: to promote the status quo, social segregation, and inequality. We start this course by reviewing the most important and influential debates on narrative dystopia in order to create a thorough familiarity with the way in which scholars, authors, and readers have thought about dystopian works and worlds. Before the course, please purchase:
Evgenii Zamyantin. We. Modern Library, 2006.
- Recommended literature
- Evgenii Zamyantin. We. Modern Library, 2006
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 10.2.2020, 19:00 and lasts till Saturday, 18.4.2020, 22:00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2020:
- Amerikanistik, Modul B (M 4)
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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