Syllabus/achievement requirements

Literature marked with a C are to be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus.

Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan (ed.) (2003): Dark Horizon. Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. New York and London: Routledge. P. 13-27& 233-249. 32p. C

de Geus, Marius (1999): Ecological Utopias, Utrecht: International Books. Chapter 12 & 13. 38p. C

Huxley, Aldous (1962/94): Island. London: Flamingo.

Jameson, Fredric (2005): Archaeologies of the Future. The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso. Chapter 10 & 13. 52p. C

Layard, Richard (2011): Happiness. Lessons from a new science. London: Penguin. Chapter 1-8, 10-12 & 14-15. 205p.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1974): The Dispossessed. New York: Harper & Row.

Levitas, Ruth (2001): “For Utopia: The (Limits of the) Utopian Function in Late Capitalist Society.” P. 25-43 in Goodwin, Barbara (ed.) The Philosophy of Utopia. London: Frank Cass. 19 p. C

Mathisen, Werner Christie (2001): ”The Underestimation of Politics in Green Utopias: The Description of Politics in Huxley's Island, Le Guin's The Dispossessed, and Callenbach's Ecotopia.” Utopian Studies 12: 56-78. 23p. C

More, Thomas (1516/1989). Utopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Robinson, Stanley Kim (1995): Pacific Edge. New York: Tom Doherty Associates.

Sargent, Lyman Tower (2010): Utopianism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: University Press. P.1-32 & 66-126. 94p.

Skinner, B. F. (1948/2005): Walden Two. Indianapolis: Hackett.

Total: 963 p. (All the novels are counted as 100 pages regardless of their actual number of pages).

Published Oct. 7, 2013 2:05 PM