Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
12h 29m 22s
English
Paid
Course description
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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