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Utopia and dystopia in Scandinavian literature - ASK500418
Title: Utopie a dystopie ve skandinávské literatuře
Guaranteed by: Department of Germanic and Nordic Studies (21-UGS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 30 (30)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Radka Stahr, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Radka Stahr, Ph.D.
Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Literatura
Annotation -
The seminar focuses on utopian, dystopian, and anti-utopian tendencies in Scandinavian literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will explore how authors respond to social crises, political ideologies, technological developments, ecological threats, and transformations of human identity through the creation of model and alternative worlds. Attention will be paid to narrative strategies, world-building, the relationship between the individual and the collective, and the ethical questions raised by these texts. The seminar combines literary-historical context with systematic interpretation of selected works and develops the ability to read utopia and dystopia as tools of critical thinking.<br>
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The language of the course is Czech. The course is open to students of all Scandinavian languages and at different stages of their studies.
Last update: Stahr Radka, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2026)
Course completion requirements -

Participation in class (70%), including regular preparation, reading of primary texts, and engagement with recommended secondary literature, and successful completion of partial assignments given during the semester.

Last update: Stahr Radka, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)
Literature

Jako primární literatura bude v kurzu čteno (v českém překladu, pro pokročilé studenty doporučeno číst v originále):

Primární literatura:

TIDBECK, Karin. Amatka. Stockholm: Mix Förlag, 2012.

BOYE, Karin. Kallocain. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1940.

LUNDE, Maja. Bienes historie. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2015.

COLLING NIELSEN, Kaspar. Den danske borgerkrig 2018–24. København: Gyldendal, 2013.

MARTINSON, Harry. Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1956.

Kratší útvary (povídky/básně) budou poskytnuty přímo během semináře.

Sekundární literatura:

MOYLAN, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

LEVITAS, Ruth. The Concept of Utopia. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990.

JAMESON, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso, 2005.

BACCOLINI, Raffaella – MOYLAN, Tom (eds.). Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. New York: Routledge, 2003.

SUVIN, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Primární i sekundární literatura bude poskytnuta v rámci kurzu na Teamsech

Last update: Stahr Radka, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)
 
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