Credits: 15 Semester: 1 Timetable:
Module Convenor: Prof James Dunkerley Overlap: None Prerequisite: None
This module introduces students to a wide range of approaches to Utopian and Dystopian thought and literature. It concentrates on political, economic, and literary dreamworlds since the 16th century. Imagination means ‘image making’, and in this sense, we look at utopias as images, snapshots of political desire that reproduce, in the negative, darkness as light, light as darkness, a set geometry of oppression, the contours of a present frustrated.
Connected course(s): Compulsory for: None Assessment: Item 1: 30% Book Review (1000 words) Item 2: 70% Essay (3000 words) Level: 6