Morales-Franceschi, Eric
MWF 11:30 AM
Park Hall 0250
ENGL 3460 Literature and Utopia
A survey of literary utopias, with an emphasis on the genre’s capacity to think beyond the socially, economically, and politically sanctioned limits of the desirable and the (im)possible—not least when it comes to the environmental crises of our time. Students will write two critical essays and partake in a series of in-class workshops and creative exercises.
Tentative reading list:
Thomas More, Utopia
William Morris, News from Nowhere
Ursula le Guin, The Dispossessed
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Essays by Paul Tillich, Herbert Marcuse, Ursula le Guin, and China Miéville.