LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Model Assignments

Research Posts 2013

Assignment


illustration to More's Utopia

Marisela Caylor
1st post:
“Holy Land:” An Examination of Lakewood as Suburban Utopia
2nd post:
The Ultimate Exurbs: Exploring Seasteading Communities and Floating Utopias

Michael Luna
1st post: Perhaps Utopias Should Have Red Flags
2nd post:
What is With Utopian Names?

Jacob McCleese
1st post: Utopian Rhetoric: Dancing to the Beat
2nd post:
Ayn Rand’s Utopian Religion

Ruth McDonald
1st post:
Kula, Sangha, and Learning Community
2nd post: Utopian Ideals in the Community

Munira Omari
1st post: Freedom or Control: Limiting the Population in Utopias
2nd post:
Are Video Games Experimental Utopias?

Amy Sasser
1st post: Excess of Love: Can Two Families Create One Utopia?
2nd post: Variations on a Theme: Translating my Personal Interests into Useful Information for the Seminar

Daniel Stuart
1st post:
The Suburban Experiment: Levittown, Demographic Drift & The Appeal of Domestic Utopia
2nd post: Tolstoyism and the Tolstoyan Movement: Literary Man and Real Utopia

Kristine Vermillion
1st post: Finch and Bacon
2nd post: L'Abri Christian Fellowship

Hannah Wells
1st post:
Every Womb is Sacred: Herland in Historical Context
2nd post:
Speculative Fiction: A Genre of Actuality


Pieter Breughel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (1563)