Dystopia in Two 1950s American Science Fiction Novels
| Thesis title in Czech: | Znaky dystopie ve dvou amerických vědeckofantastických románech z 50. let 20. století |
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| Thesis title in English: | Dystopia in Two 1950s American Science Fiction Novels |
| Key words: | dystopie|americká literatura 50. léta|sci-fi literatura|Ray Bradbury|451 stupňů Fahrenheita|Frederik Pohl|Cyril M. Kornbluth|Obchodníci s vesmírem |
| English key words: | Dystopia|1950s American Literature|Sci-Fi Literature|Ray Bradbury|Fahrenheit 451|Frederik Pohl|Cyril M. Kornbluth|The Space Merchants |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2020/2021 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 17.12.2020 |
| Date of assignment: | 17.12.2020 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 05.01.2021 |
| Date and time of defence: | 07.09.2021 09:30 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 10.08.2021 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 07.09.2021 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The aim of the BA thesis is to analyse the treatment of dystopian features in two science fiction novels written in the 1950s. The two novels will be Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. The thesis will be analysing different features of dystopia and how these features manifest themselves in these two novels. There will be included a theoretical part and an analytical part. The theoretical part will consist of an overview of the science fiction and dystopia genre with the focus on its picture in the 1950s and a description of different aspects that are characteristic for this particular genre. The analytical part will be an analysis of the dystopian features found in the two science fiction novels and how they fit into the 1950s picture of science fiction and dystopian literature. |
| References |
| Primary Sources: Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Simon & Schuster, 2012. Kindle. Pohl, Frederik and Cyril M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants. London: Gollancz, 2003. Secondary Sources: Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Guides: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007. Bould, Mark, and Sherryl Vint, eds. The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction. London: Routledge, 2011. Claeys, Gregory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Hassler, Donald M., and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Political Science Fiction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. James, Edward, and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Mancini, Candice L., ed. Censorship in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Moylan, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. Boulder: Westfield, 2000. Roberts, Adam. The History of Science Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Seed, David. American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. Suvin, Darko. “On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre.” College English 34, no. 3. (1972): 372–382. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/375141. |