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	Review Articles: July 1995
		For the purposes of the current volume, it is precisely such literature that is encompassed by the term "dystopian." Briefly, dystopian literature is specifically that literature which situates itself in direct opposition to utopian thought, warning against the potential negative consequences of arrant utopianism.
		If the dystopian were truly an energy or spirit common to much of the literature of the 20th century, one would expect to be shown this impulse at work in texts other than the same familiar dystopias and anti-utopias.
		If the dystopian is "a critical energy or spirit," one characterized by futuristic visions which express reservations about the direction of society, one could perhaps argue that one was describing an (artistic) stance found in disparate societies which were reacting, in one way or another, to the pace and negative impact of modernization.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r66.htm (4053 words)

	List of dystopian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This list does not cite its references or sources.
		This is a list of novels commonly viewed as dystopian literature.
		The majority of the listed works are not controversial, in the sense that their dystopian character is generally acknowledged.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature (361 words)

	dictionary - English literature
		The term English literature refers to literature written in the modern English language or its antecedents, or literature composed in English by writers who are not from England.
		English literature emerged as a recognisable entity only in the medieval period, when the English language itself became distinct from the Norman and Anglo-Saxon dialects which preceded it (see Old English poetry).
		Literature for children was published during the Victorian period, some of which has become globally well-known, such as the work of Lewis Carroll who was a proponent of nonsense verse, as was Edward Lear.
	www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/English_Literature (1374 words)

	dystopian
		A dystopian society is usually characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of oppressive social control.
		In dystopian societies, the economic system is one that centers around stability and is structured so that the government or the economic system is immune to change or disruption.
		That is, the narrative may deal with individuals in a dystopian society who are unsatisfied, and may rebel, but ultimately fail to change anything.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Dystopia.php (1207 words)

	, English 6330 (Shapes of Utopia)
		Our study of utopian literature is limited (1) by the focus of the course (i.e., I selected texts that represented various forms of utopian expression rather than texts considered "representative" of their era, though many of the ones I selected are that too); and (2) by my interest in American utopianism.
		I have decided to define utopian literature within the contexts of working definitions of utopian communities and utopian thought, since they are often lumped together in confusing ways with comments about utopian literature.
		Utopian literature is very much of a hybrid form of discourse that borrows from many different oral and written fictional and non-fictional traditions.
	www.uta.edu /english/literature/6339utopia.html (1715 words)

	Heroes in Dystopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is a list for a possible book group focused on dystopias.
		A novel is dystopian if it has a coherent social critique mixed in with the usual aspects of character and plot.
		Perhaps there is since the hero is strikingly modern; one could regard the novel as a kind of science fiction as it projects social and individual behavior.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/kainen/booklist.html (250 words)

	David Ketterer- Science Fiction and Allied Literature
		Apocalyptic literature is conceived as one part of a tripartite circular sequence which also includes fantastic literature and mimetic literature.
		At the same time, if the variously faceted definition of apocalyptic literature which I have elaborated in New Worlds for Old is in any way convincing, I believe it allows for a much clearer mapping of the relationships between SF and its encompassing literary structure than does the term speculative literature.
		Of course, all literature which acknowledges in its world view the important role played by science and technology might be considered in some sense sympathetic to SF but, in order for such literature to be considered apocalyptic, developments in the sciences must be in some way correlated with the sense of a radically changed world.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/8/ketterer8art.htm (5950 words)

	Dystopian Literature — www.greenwood.com
		Description: Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems.
		Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal.
		Because dystopian literature is so closely related to utopian writing, the reference profiles and discusses eight important utopian works.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR9115.aspx (234 words)

	Communication and Literature Department courses
		The analysis and study of literature and performance techniques in preparation for public performance with particular attention given to the needs and expectations of culturally diverse audiences.
		The purpose of the course is three-fold: to introduce the student to literary works that consider questions of fundamental importance to the meaning of human existence; to develop the student¹s ability to read literature for theme, structure, style, and tradition; and to broaden the student¹s intellectual and cultural experience.
		Consideration of such modes as the novel of education, the psychological novel, utopian and dystopian visions, and proletarian literature.
	www.umpi.maine.edu /programs/comd/comdcd.htm (2923 words)

	dystopian literature - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		...and marriage, many feminist authors have turned to dystopian literature as a vehicle for articulating anti-patriarchal attitudes...the romantic convention of a happy ending with a dystopian moment of loss and separation, she further reinforces...
		Escaping a Dystopian Present: Compensatory and Anticipatory Utopias in Bruce Chatwin's the Viceroy of Ouidah and the Songlines
		The defining feature of dystopian literature is that it denies the appeal of the utopias it satirises...suffering--of crime, war, disease, madness -- in the dystopian society; but this is so obviously a parody of the...
	www.questia.com /search/dystopian-literature (1268 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Between Future and Fatality: Utopian and Dystopian Ideas in German ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Literature and film have always served as media for drawing up an imaginary future.
		Be it as a harbinger of dark apocalyptic visions or as the beacon of a paradisiacal and ideal world.
		We invite graduate students from all disciplines to submit paper proposals responding to these or similar questions related to the depiction of utopian and dystopian concepts in modern or pre-modern time periods.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/007597.html (583 words)

	English Education: YA Lit 2002 Honor List
		Anyone who assumes that literature for teenagers is all the same or that it exists "out there" apart from general adult interests and events should take a close look at this year's Honor List.
		Instead, it is true to its dystopian genre and the author's desire to present a cautionary tale portraying a dark future that grows out of human foibles manifested in the present.
		Gantos offers his own story as living proof that with a little bit of help and encouragement, along with a healthy portion of luck, it is quite possible that teenagers who find themselves in deep trouble can find their way out and go on to have productive lives.
	www.asu.edu /clas/english/englished/yalit/engedya02honorlist.htm (1644 words)

	X-POP3-Rcpt: larry@sun
		Lists are many things: memory aids, containers of information, a means of organizing materials, efforts to prioritize and overcome chaos and entropy.
		The following list of the 20th Century’s Greatest Literary Hits is all of the above, as well as being a means of sharing with my readers my own views about what books are going to be read 100 or 1000 years from now.
		The following list was inspired by the list of the "100 Greatest English Language Novels" that was compiled and released in 1998 by the editors of the Modern Library.
	www.spinelessbooks.com /mccaffery/100/index.html (3060 words)

	List of dystopian films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of films commonly regarded as dystopian.
		Many of the listed works are not controversial, in the sense that their dystopian character is generally acknowledged.
		Critics do not always agree whether a particular work is genuinely dystopian or whether - despite the more menacing and dehumanising elements in the society it portrays - it is really an attempt to depict a heterotopia, a society that is neither utopian nor entirely bad, but different from our own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_dystopian_films (603 words)

	ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Decoding The Matrix: Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
		At its core, however, is a dystopian work with many of the same characteristics found in dystopian novels such as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and Brave New World.
		Have students identify connections between the class list of characteristics for a perfect society and the definition of a utopian society.
		List their observations on the board or on chart paper.
	www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=926 (1809 words)

	U.C. Berkeley Summer Reading 2002
		Of course not all books are great literature, and not all books that have been banned have literary merit.
		This book has been celebrated since it was first published in 1885, and it has been in trouble, with one early critic calling it "a pitiable exhibition of irreverence and vulgarity." More recently, it has been challenged by readers offended by Mark Twain's characters' realistic use of the language of racism.
		The technique and the language of the book gave rise to a strain in American literature that is still so comfortable and familiar for the modern reader, it is hard to realize just how innovative it once was.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /Instruction/readinglists/2002.html (1751 words)

	Achetypal Works of Dystopian Literature
		The endeavor to achieve utopia, the best existence obtainable to humanity, is a response to the problems present in society. It is a way of dealing in the imagination with these problems, suggesting an ideal for society to strive towards.
		The main characters in dystopian novels are often trapped in their lives and struggling to escape; these novels usually intend to criticize existing social conditions and political systems.
		Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal (Booker 10).
	www.gwu.edu /~english/kaleidoscope/Essaypages/Essay14.htm (725 words)

	ACLA 2001: TOPOS/CHRONOS -- Proposed Seminars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The range of contributions to the seminar, which should be short versions of papers intended for publication, might explore the American chronotope, from its inception as European "discovery," to its globalization as hegemonic agency of MacWorld.
		Issues such as millenarian eschatology, utopian imaginaries, dystopian locii, diasporic spheres, national and hemispheric habitus, post-national and post-historical faultlines, frontiers of transculturation, and contestatory identities could be examined through the literarycultures of America /Americas.
		Professors Djelal Kadir and Laura Lomas, Department of Comparative Literature, 311 Burrowes Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-6203, or e-mailed to same at dxk50@psu.edu, no later than October 1, 2000.
	www.colorado.edu /comparativeliterature/acla2001/ps/kadir.html (119 words)

	Science Fiction & Fantasy Theses and Dissertations
		Purpose of this list: My purpose is to attempt to list every doctoral dissertation, masters thesis, and baccalaureate/senior/honors thesis dealing with science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, and utopian/dystopian literature and media of which I become aware.
		Lists attempting to list 'everything' of something are doomed to a certain level of incompleteness, but the attempt is part of the fun of doing it.
		These titles have been excluded from the main listing because while they may appear in the results of various searches conducted in pursuit of dissertations and theses for this listing, they seem to be 'false drops' or inappropriate.
	www.csulb.edu /~lswigart/sfftd.html (540 words)

	Book Lists
		Some of them were found on published lists recommended for high school and Advanced Placement reading.
		By the same token, should you read one of the many books listed without an annotation, please write one of about 20-40 words, and I will add it to the book's listing.
		Winston Smith is a faceless little bureaucrat in the "Ministry of Truth" whose job it is to rewrite history to conform to present propaganda.
	home.ptd.net /~msteen/book_lists.htm (1202 words)

	American Modern Manuscript Collections - Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Catherwood's papers include mostly out-going correspondence, manuscript and published writings, diaries, notebooks, notes for stories, clippings, photographs and some miscellaneous material relating her life and career.
		Professor of American literature at the U.S. Naval Academy and Melville scholar.
		American literary critic and scholar, who served as associate editor and editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and taught American literature for two years in Brazil, and after 1946 at the University of Chicago.
	www.newberry.org /collections/literature.html (3853 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Dystopian Worlds
		Tell students that many writers have produced cautionary tales, in which humankind is plunged into a society that may look inviting on the surface, but is in reality a nightmarish dystopia.
		Distribute the Dystopian Worlds Reading List to students, and allow them to select a book.
		It may be helpful to generate a list of topics to discuss in each session, such as the role of government in the novel, gender roles, representations of rebellion or heroism, ideas of good and evil, etc. (Alternatively, you may ask students to brainstorm a list of topics they wish to discuss.)
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2346 (1323 words)

	Juvenile Literature
		A listing of the authors’ award winning titles is provided at the end of each section, and the back of the book features a glossary of literary and artistic terms, as well as a complete listing of Caldecott winners up to 1998.
		And "you can call me Al." While Scieszka allows the reader to decide for himself whether or not the wolf is telling the truth, the wolf’s attempts to wheedle the reader with his story of woe and his multiple protestations of innocence may lead the reader to believe that the wolf doth protest too much.
		The listing of the types of wolves in the text does not give the reader a clear picture of the physiological differences between them.
	home.netcom.com /~kgotts/juvenileliterature (14098 words)

	Literature
		Masterpieces of classical literature: the epics of Homer and Virgil; Greek comedy and tragedy; selections from the philosophical work of Plato and Lucretius; some Greek and Roman lyric poems, and examples of Roman satire.
		These works are studied primarily as literary masterpieces in their own right, but some account is given of their historical setting and of their influence upon subsequent literature.
		The fictional works examined are supplemented by readings of psychoanalytic texts, used partly as a basis for discussion of the literature, partly as an analytic complement to the intuitive insights offered by the fiction.
	www.njit.edu /v2/archivecatalog/undergraduate/94/58.html (1003 words)

	Abebooks: 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
		Robert McCrum of The Observer has compiled his list of the 100 greatest novels of all time.
		Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford).
		An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America.
	www.abebooks.com /sm-featured--guardianList.html (1223 words)

	NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORP.
		Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review.
		The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry.
		Please see our complete catalog for a full list of backlist and recent titles.
	www.ndpublishing.com /backlist.html (1098 words)

	[MGSA-L] Greek Literature Translations
		Roland Moore Modern Greek Studies Association Via E-mail: Rolandmo at pacbell.Net Dear Roland, The Hellenic Literature Society (HLS) continuing its efforts to disseminate Greek literary information and to promote Greek literary works is now focusing on the problem of the unavailability of funds to finance translations of Greek literary works.
		We are therefore requesting from all concerned and especially professors at universities around the world, to recommend Greece in Print to their respective libraries to be their preferred source of Greek books.
		We understand that foreign literature collections are often hard to keep up to date, with many difficulties caused by a lack of resources in finding or purchasing new titles.
	maillists.uci.edu /mailman/public/mgsa-l/2006-May/007010.html (877 words)

	Active Course List - Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences at NSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Honors Seminar: Global Jewish Literature: Students will identify, reflect upon, and write about the particularities of different regions of the globe to demonstrate their awareness and understanding of the ways in which written rhetorical strategies translate into both the separation and/or the blending of a people in search of the traditional Jewish community.
		Geographically-specific, representative literature of the Jewish people--area studies of Jewish literature--reveal similarities and dissimilarities with regard to representations of Jewish history, culture, religion, and society.
		Various manifestations of utopias and dystopias in literature, philosophy, film, and mythology will be focused on as students explore the desire of humans to conceive of an ideal society, as well as the advantages and dangers of such conceptions.
	www.undergrad.nova.edu /coursewizard/courselist.cfm?txtSubject=HONR (1888 words)

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