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Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

de Pamela Bedore (Actor)

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Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives.Utopian and dystopian writing sits at the crossroads of literature and other important academic disciplines such as philosophy, history, psychology, politics, and sociology. It serves as a useful tool to discuss our present condition and future prospects - to imagine a better tomorrow and warn of dangerous possibilities. From Thomas More's foundational text Utopia published in 1516 to the 21st-century phenomenon of The Hunger Games, dive into stories that seek to find the best - and the worst - in humanity, with the hope of better understanding ourselves and the world. Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature delivers 24 illuminating lectures, led by Pamela Bedore, Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, 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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More about theory than actual literature. Not what I expected. ( )
  davisfamily | Dec 11, 2022 |
Fantagóð yfirferð yfir helstu bókmenntaverk síðustu alda sem marka þáttaskil í umfjöllun um útópíu og andstæðuna dystópíu. Bedore fer á skemmtilegan og fræðandi máta yfir verk margra af mínum eftirlætishöfundum á borð við Ursulu LeGuin, Margaret Atwood, George Orwell og Octaviu Butler svo einhverjir séu nefndir. Hún bendir á undirliggjandi pælingar í þessum verkum og tengsl við samfélagið auk ótrúlegra vinsælda þeirra, ekki síst dystópísku bylgjuna sem tröllríður öllu s.s. við Hungurleikana og Walking Dead. Mæli eindregið með þessum fyrirlestrum. ( )
  SkuliSael | Apr 28, 2022 |
An excellent overview of Utopia from the earliest stories up to the most recent Dystopian stories. Enjoyable listen too. ( )
  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
Great lecture series dissecting multiple literary iterations of the concept of Utopian (and Distopian) worlds, histories, and realities. One of the better entries I have listened to from the Great Courses collection.
  smichaelwilson | Dec 7, 2020 |
Boy, I enjoyed this course! I began it on the heels of reading a couple of dystopian works by Paolo Bacigalupi, and found that it helped me understand a bit more about the literary antecedents of those stories. Bedore begins with the father of the genre, Thomas More. His Utopia defines the genre with its ambiguous presentation of a perfect society that is literally nowhere (Utopia comes from the Greek and means "no place.")

The Utopian literature discussed by Bedore in these lectures are all ambiguous, forcing the readers to try to decide if they are reading earnest prose or satire, or a combination of the two. And in some of the examples, it's pretty clear that one man's utopia is another's dystopia.

In this series of 24 lectures Bedore covers, among other topics, the earliest Utopian writings of More, Swift, and Voltaire, the American utopians, the birth of utopian Science Fiction, feminist utopian thought of the 1970s, and later the dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale, and the move to young adult dystopian literature. They're all highly informative and interesting, and I found myself adding a number of titles to my wish lists as a result. This is one of the Great Courses, and well worth what I paid for it over on Audible ( )
  Tracy_Rowan | Oct 30, 2017 |
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Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives.Utopian and dystopian writing sits at the crossroads of literature and other important academic disciplines such as philosophy, history, psychology, politics, and sociology. It serves as a useful tool to discuss our present condition and future prospects - to imagine a better tomorrow and warn of dangerous possibilities. From Thomas More's foundational text Utopia published in 1516 to the 21st-century phenomenon of The Hunger Games, dive into stories that seek to find the best - and the worst - in humanity, with the hope of better understanding ourselves and the world. Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature delivers 24 illuminating lectures, led by Pamela Bedore, Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, 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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