LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Model Assignments

Midterm Exams 2011


Assignment

Student Submissions (as received)

Meryl Bazaman: Utopia, the Functionality and Distortion of Applied Imagination

Sarah Coronado: Human Progression in Utopian and Dystopian Literature

Alicia Costello: The Many Dichotomies of the Place Called Utopia and its Fiction

Chrissie Johnston: The Attraction of Perfection

Patrick Locke: Interpreting Outsider Endorsement of Utopia

Katie Parnian: The Perfect Utopia: a Contradiction in Terms

Katie Raney: Utopian Studies: A Source for Enlightenment; Looking at Genre and Convention in Utopia, Herland, and Looking Backward; Special Interest: Literacy within Anthem, 1984, and The Giver

James Seth: World Upside Down: Progressivism, Economy and Identity in Utopian Literature

Amy Shanks: Acclimating to and Evaluating Utopian Literature; the Utopian Form; Utopian Interest

Omar Syed: Utopias are scarier than Dystopias

Dru Watkins: React to Progress: Political Implications of Emerging Literary Utopias + Utopias & Literature of Ideas

Nicole Wheatley: The Hypocritical World of Utopias

Jenna Zucha: Utopia as a “Literature of Ideas”: The Search for an Ideal World