ENG 424 - Utopian and Dystopian Literature

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Furman University

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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A study of works such as Plato's Republic, Thomas More's Utopia, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, William Morris's News from Nowhere, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars,. The starting premise will be that the utopian/dystopian text responds to an ethical demand, an obligation to imagine another time or another place, and that acting upon this demand requires a leap of the literary imagination. In utopian and dystopian texts, ethics and aesthetics intersect to make specific demands on the reader, but also to demand each other's cooperation (no aesthetics without ethics, no ethics without aesthetics in the utopian/dystopian text). 4 credits.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.furman.edu

Phone Number:

(864) 294-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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