LITR 5431 Literary & Historical Utopias

Model Assignments

Midterm Submissions 2019

Assignment


Melissa Bray, Does Secondary Education Need Utopia? + Crawling Before Walking, Learning Before Teaching: Utopian Edition

Cynthia Cleveland, Utopia: “No place” but our imagination + Utopias: A Platform for Problem Solving

Bill Clouse, The Appeal to Nightmares + Utopia? Well…at Least the Genre Works

Jesus E. Garcia, Dystopian Society: A Film Director’s Treasure + Beginning to Understand the Utopian Point

Patrick Graham, Utopian Fiction: an Impractical Ideal + Transferring Hope from the Page to the World

Joan Gray, Utopia and Dystopia as a Satire + The “Other” within Utopian Genre

Austin Green, Allocating Ideas + The Cloaked Utopia

Robin Hall, The Practical Value of Utopias + Utopias: A Kitchen Sink or a Laboratory Test Tube?

Arnecia Harris, Understanding Dystopian Literature on Young Adult Readers + Literary and Historical Utopias

Grant Law , The Utopian Garden Was Eden And Eden Is An Escape + The Postmodern Utopia: Everything is Changing While Staying the Same

Clark Omo, Societal Contradiction of the Utopic + The Utopian Genre: Discourse and the Speculative

Angela Pennington, Isolation in Utopian Society: Is it Necessary? Is it Practical? + Utopias in Practice and How to Avoid a Dystopian Society

Lauren Rayne, Utopia: A Dystopia in the Making + Abstract Ideals that Represent the Very Real

John Sissons, Can Science Fiction Effectively Use a Classic Utopia Story Within Its Story Arc? + Literary and Historical Utopias: Entertaining and Instructive?

Sara Stevens, The Tortoise or the Hare: Who Wins the Race Game + Marshmallow and his Harem of Hens

Jenna Wood, Individual Utopias and the Individual + Dys-Topia Course is getting Interesting


Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom 1826
(background: Wm Penn's treaty with Delaware Indians)