Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

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

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