Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

12h 29m 22s
English
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April 8, 2024

Join an award-winning professor to examine a wide range of literary works extending from the peaceful to the nightmarish, and from the conservative to the subversive.

Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature delivers 24 illuminating lectures which plunge you into the history and development of utopian ideas and their dystopian counterparts. You'll encounter some of the most powerful and influential texts in this genre as you travel centuries into the past and thousands of years into the future, through worlds that are beautiful, laughable, terrifying, and always thought-provoking.

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# Title Duration
1 1 Utopia: The perfect nowhere 30:22
2 2 Thomas more and utopian origins 32:20
3 3 Swift, Voltaire, and utopian satire 31:15
4 4 American dreamers: Hawthorne and Alcott 32:28
5 5 Samuel Butler and utopian technologies 31:45
6 6 Edwad Bellamy and utopian activism 31:00
7 7 H.G. Wells and utopian science fiction 30:09
8 8 Charlotte Perkins Gliman and gendered utopia 30:34
9 9 Yevgeny Zamyatin and dystopian uniformity 31:15
10 10 Aldous Huxley and dystopian pleasure 29:54
11 11 George Orwell and totalitarian dystopia 31:11
12 12 John Wyndham and young adult dystopia 30:27
13 13 Philip K. Dick's dystopian crime prevention 31:20
14 14 Anthony Burgess, Free will, and dystopia 31:48
15 15 The feminist utopian movementy of the 1970s 32:40
16 16 Ursula K. Le Guin and the ambiguous utopia 31:03
17 17 Samuel Delany and the Heterotopia 32:08
18 18 Octavia Butler and the utopian alien 31:06
19 19 Octavia Butler and utopian hybridity 30:21
20 20 Margaret Atwood and environmental dystopia 30:03
21 21 SUzanne Collins and dystopian games 30:01
22 22 Cyberpunk Dystopia: Doctorow and Anderson 31:20
23 23 Apocalyptic literrature in the 21st century 30:17
24 24 The future of utopia and dystopia 34:35

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