LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Model Assignments

Research Posts 2019

Assignment


William Blake (1757-1822),
Ancient of Days (1794)

Melissa Bray
1st post: The Irony of High School Dystopias and Their Appeal
2nd post:
Childrearing in Utopias

Cynthia Cleveland
1st post:
Hostile Takeover: Building a Utopia

2nd post: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Utopic Ambiguities

Bill Clouse
1st post: The Four Apocalypse: from Alas, Babylon to Children of Men
2nd post:
The Dystopian Boom and Why the Utopian Narrative Need Not Worry

Jesus Garcia
1st post: The Lobster: A Representation of Two Dystopian Extremes
2nd post: Dystopian Success and Utopian Failure in the Box Office

Patrick Graham
1st post: Utopia, Republic, and Politics: Thomas More Stands on the Shoulders of Plato and Aristotle
2nd post:
Feminists Make Utopian Fiction Relevant Again

J. Gray
1st post: Modern Day Education = Modern Day Dystopia
2nd post:
Hippies, Cowgirls, and Counterculture Communes

Austin Green
1st post: "I'd buy that for a dollar!" (Robocop)
2nd post:
Heaven is a Place on Earth

Liz Haden
1st post:
Utopia: An Individual’s Fantasy?
2nd post:

Robin Hall
1st post: Who Built “Herland”?
2nd post:
Jane Addams’s Hull House: A Feminist Utopia or a Model for the Twenty-First Century?

Arnecia Harris
1st post:
Sixties Utopian Movement
2nd post: Sixties Utopian Movement

Grant Law
1st post:
The Hauntological Spectres in Stalker and Herland: Utopias Stuck in Stasis
2nd post:
The Apollonian and Dionysian Aesthetic of Plato’s Healthy and Fevered City

Clark Omo
1st post:
Burying the Self: Restraining Individuality in Utopias
2nd post:
Beware the Kool-aid: Exploitation and Abuse in Cult Practices

Angela Pennington
1st post:
Utopic Visions in Utah

2nd post: The Utopian University

 

Lauren Rayne
1st post:
There Will Always Be the “Other”

2nd post: The Unbelievable Mask in Fairy Tales and Utopias

 

John Sissons
1st post:
Iconoclastic Elements in Early Utopian Literature

2nd post: Utopia in Science Fiction: Utopia, Dystopia, or Ustopia?

 

Sara Stevens
1st post:
Prepping for the Millennium: Doomsday Preppers as a Utopia

2nd post: Instructions

 

Jenna Wood
1st post:
"Power is Just Sex": The Power of a Sex-Free Utopia in Gilman's Herland

2nd post: "Ambitopia": the Future of Utopian Fiction

 


British TV thriller titled Utopia, 2013-