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課程名稱

烏托邦小說選讀
Introduction to Utopian Fiction

開課學期

101-1

授課對象

文學院外國語文學系

授課教師

張惠娟

課號

FL2138

課程識別碼

102 24140

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

必修

上課時間

星期二2,3,4(9:10~12:10)

上課地點

普303

備註

外文系優先.
限學士班二年級以上
總人數上限：20人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1011utopia

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課程概述

This course is an introduction to utopian literature. Attention will be paid first to some current utopian scholarship. Then we will study excerpts from various utopian novels with a view to appreciating diversity in the genre.

課程目標

To introduce major utopian texts and to familiarize students with current utopian scholarship.

課程要求

1.Regular attendance and active participation in class discussion.
2. Group oral report (40 minutes) / Group Written Report (4-6 pages) / Mid-term exam / Final exam
3. Term paper (optional; 4-6 pages)

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

每週五 14:00~16:00

指定閱讀

參考書目

Textbook:
A course pack prepared by the instructor.

Reference:
Baccolini, Raffaella, and Tom Moylan, eds. Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and
the Dystopian Imagination. New York: Routledge, 2003. Print.
DiTommaso, Lorenzo. “At the Edge of Tomorrow: Apocalypticism and Science
Fiction.” End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity.
Ed. Karolyn Kinane and Michael Ryan. Jefferson: McFarland, 2009. 221-41. Print.
Kemperink, Mary G., and Willemien H.S. Roenhorst. "Visualizing Utopia: An
Introduction." Visualizing Utopia. Ed. Mary G. Kemperink and Willemien H.S.
Roenhorst. Leuven: Peeters, 2007. ix-xix. Print.
Kumar, Krishan. “Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition.” Thinking Utopia:
Steps into Other Worlds. Ed. Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr and Thomas W. Rieger.
New York: Berghahn, 2005. 17-31. Print.
---. Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987. Print.
Johns, Alessa. "Feminism and Utopianism." The Cambridge Companion to Utopian
Literature. Ed. Gregory Claeys. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 174-78. Print.
Moylan, Tom. Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian
Imagination. New York: Methuen, 1986. Print.

Further Readings:
Baccolini, Raffaella. “Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of
Katherine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler.” Future Females: The
Next Generation. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 13-
34. Print.
Claeys, Gregory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.
Donawerth, Jane. “The Feminist Dystopia of the 1990s: Record of Failure,
Midwife of Hope.” Future Females: The Next Generation. Ed. Marleen S. Barr.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 49-66. Print.
Hall, John R. Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity. Malden:
Polity, 2009. Print.
Haran, Joan. "(Re)Productive Fictions: Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist
Science in Marge Piercy's Science Fiction." Science Fiction: Critical
Frontiers. Ed. Karen Sayer and John Moore. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000. 154-
68. Print.
Kumar, Krishan. Utopianism. Milton Keynes: Open UP, 1991. Print.
Levitas, Ruth. The Concept of Utopia. New York: Philip Allan, 1990. Print.
Logan, George M., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2011. Print.
Moylan, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia.
Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 2000. Print.
Russell, Robert. Zamiatin's We. London: Bristol Classical P, 2000. Print.
Critical Studies in Russian Literature.
Sargent, Lyman Tower. “The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited.” Utopian
Studies 5 (1994): 1-37. Print.
---. Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.
Suvin, Darko. Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and
Political Epistemology. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. Print. Ralahine Utopian
Studies 6.
Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Octavia E. Butler,
Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.
Wagar, W. Warren. H.G. Wells: Traversing Time. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2004.
Print.
Weaver, Roslyn. “’The Shadow of the End’: The Appeal of Apocalypse in
Literary Science Fiction.” The End All around Us: Apocalyptic Texts and
Popular Culture. Ed. John Walliss and Kenneth G. C. Newport. London: Equinox,
2009. 173-97. Print.
Wolmark, Jenny. Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and
Postmodernism. New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. Print.

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Group Written Report	10%
2.	Group Oral Report	10%
3.	Final exam	40%
4.	Mid-term exam	40%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	09/11	Introduction and course description
第2週	09/18	Introduction to "Utopia": Kemperink and Roenhorst, "Visualizing Utopia: An Introduction," Visualizing Utopia ix-xix. Krishan Kumar, “Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition,” Thinking Utopia 17-31.
第3週	09/25	Thomas More, Utopia
第4週	10/02	Thomas More, Utopia (cont.)
第5週	10/09	Introduction to "Dystopia": Krishan Kumar, “Anti-Utopia, Shadow of Utopia,” Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times 99-130.
第6週	10/16	H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
第7週	10/23	H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (cont.) / Group Report Topic DUE / Term Paper (optional) Topic DUE
第8週	10/30	Mid-term Exam
第9週	11/06	Evgeny Zamyatin, We
第10週	11/13	Evgeny Zamyatin, We (cont.) / Group Report 1
第11週	11/20	Introduction to "Critical Utopia": Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible, 41-46. Alessa Johns, "Feminism and Utopianism." Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature, 174-78. / Group Report 2
第12週	11/27	Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time / Group Report 3
第13週	12/04	Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (cont.) / Group Report 4
第14週	12/11	Introduction to "Critical Dystopia": Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan, "Introduction: Dystopia and Histories." Dark Horizons, 1-8. Dale Knickerbocker, "Apocalypse, Utopia, and Dystopia: Old Paradigms Meet a New Millennium." Extrapolation 51.3 (Fall 2010): 345-349./ Group Report 5
第15週	12/18	Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
第16週	12/25	Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (cont.) / Group Written Report DUE / Term Paper (optional) DUE
第17週	2013/01/01	Holiday
第18週	2013/01/08	Final Exam