The Sixties and Seventies Through Utopia - AAA500322

• Title: 60. a 70. léta v utopii
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
To ask what role the concept of utopia played during the ?turbulent? decades of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States,
and to suggest what relevance the concept might have for today. Texts will include both fictional and theoretical works.

ASSESSMENT
Active class participation, one oral presentation, one final paper (3000-4000 words)

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)

Literature

MATERIAL

Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. Berkeley: Banyan Tree Books, 1975.

Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.

Kumar, Krishan. ?Utopia and Anti-Utopia in the Twentieth Century.? Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

Le Guin, Ursula K. ?The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.? 1973. The Wind?s Twelve Quarters. London: Golancz, 1975.

Marcuse, Herbert. ?The End of Utopia.? 1967. Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.

Marin, Louis. ?Disneyland: A Degenerate Utopia.? Glyph 1 (1977).

Moylan, Tom. Demand the Impossible. London: Methuen, 1986.

Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. New York: Ballantine, 1976.

Suvin, Darko. ?On the Poetics of Science Fiction Genre.? College English 34:3 (Dec 1972).

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)

Teaching methods

seminar

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)