COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: THE DYSTOPIAN FICTION
| Title | ΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Η ΜΥΘΟΠΛΑΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΔΥΣΤΟΠΙΑΣ / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: THE DYSTOPIAN FICTION |
| Title in German | Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft: Dystopische Fiktionen |
| Code | ΒΚ0324 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | German Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600024513 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Germanikīs Glṓssas kai Filologías (2020-sīmera)
Registered students: 23
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | EPILEGOMENA EIDIKEUSĪS | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 2 |
| Total Hours | 26 |
| Class ID | 600253004
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Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600253004
- eLearning:
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- German (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Familiarity with the basic structure of the classic dystopia enables students to recognize the innovative variations within the genre. Knowledge of exemplary texts and films enables them to recognize the intertextual references. They will recognize the social criticism behind the images of the future.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Since antiquity, philosophers and poets have been creating alternative social orders, the unreal character of which is expressed in the term u-topia. Since the end of the 19th century, such visions have increasingly taken on the character of nightmares, expressed by the prefix “dys”. The seminar will examine dystopian concepts in literature and film from the 20th and 21st centuries and question them with regard to their critical potential, focusing in particular on the role of technology, religion and nature. Αpart from the dystopias covered during the semester, students will have the opportunity to work on a dystopian fiction of their choice in the form of a project.
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Multimedia
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
- Labortatory Assignment (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Τζορτζ Όργουελ, 1984. Μεταφραση Κατερίνα Σχοινά. Μεταίχμιο 2021.
Additional bibliography for study
Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
———. Oryx and Crake. Anchor, 2004.
———. Year of the Flood. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009.
Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan, (Eds). Dark Horizon: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. New York and Routledge, 2003.
Baker, Robert S. Brave new world: history, science, and dystopia. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
Blidariu, S. D. «Inheritance After Apocalypse: The Dystopian Environment». Altre Modernità, n. 9, maggio 2013, pagg. 53-65, doi:10.13130/2035-7680/2986.
Booker, M. Keith. Dystopian literature: a theory and research guide. Greenwood Press, 1994.
Booker, M. Keith. The dystopian impulse in modern literature: fiction as social criticism. Greenwood Press, 1994.
Coenen, Christopher, Stefan Gammel, Reinhard Heil, und Andreas Woyke. Die Debatte über >Human Enhancement<: Historische, philosophische und ethische Aspekte der technologischen Verbesserung des Menschen. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010.
Cornils, Ingo. Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2020.
Courtine, Jean-Jacques. „A Brave New Language: Orwell’s Invention of ‚Newspeak‘ in 1984“. SubStance 15, Nr. 2 (1986): 69–74. https://doi.org/10.2307/3684756.
de Koster Katie, (Ed.). Readings on Fahrenheit 451, Greenhaven Press, Inc., San Diego, 2000.
Esselborn, Hans (Hg.). Utopie, antiutopie und science Fiction im deutschsprachigen Roman des 20.Jahrhunderts. Würzburg 2002.
Fleck, Dirk C.. Das Tahiti Projekt. München, Zürich: Piper, 2010.
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. The new critical idiom. London; New York: Routledge, 2004.
Gee, Maggie. The Ice People. Telegram Books, 2008.
Gleason, Abbott, Goldsmith, Jack and Nussbaum, Martha C.. On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Gnüg, Hiltrud. Utopie und utopischer Roman. Philipp Reclam jun., 1999.
Habermas, Jürgen. Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur: auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik? Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005.
Hasselmann, Kristiane, Schmidt, Sandra. Utopische Körper: Visionen künftiger Körper in Geschichte, Kunst und Gesellschaft. München: Fink, c2004.
Hauptmann, Kilian, Martin Hennig, und Hans Krah. Narrative der Überwachung, 2020. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068884.
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Hughes, Rowland, and Pat Wheeler. “Introduction Eco-Dystopias: Nature and the Dystopian Imagination.” Critical Survey, vol. 25, no. 2, 2013, pp. 1–6. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42751030. Accessed 29 Sept. 2024.
Ironmonger, John. Das Jahr des Dugong. Eine Geschichte für unsere Zeit. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Verlag, 2021. (Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Tobias Schnettler)
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———. Never Let Me Go. Klett, 2012.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. 1954-. Klara und die Sonne: Roman. München: Blessing, 2022.
Koch, Lars (eds.), Angst_ Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. J.B. Metzler. 2013.
Κομνηνός, Νίκος Ζ.. Η Σπίθα. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, 2020. (Μετάφραση από τα αγγλικά Χριστόδουλος Λιθάρης)
Lee, Martyn J. The Consumer Society Reader. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000.
Lisboa, Maria Manuel. The End of the World: Apocalypse and Its Aftermath in Western Culture. Open Book Publishers, 2011.
Magid, Annette M. (Ed.). Apocalyptic Projections. A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Inyimations as Related to Film and Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Μακρόπουλος, Μιχάλης. Ιστορίες από ένα περασμένο μέλλον. Αθήνα: Κίχλη, 2022.
Μακρόπουλος, Μιχάλης. Μαύρο Νερό. Αθήνα: Κίχλη, 2019.
Malvestio, Marco. “Theorizing Eco-Dystopia: Science Fiction, the Anthropocene, and the Limits of Catastrophic Imagery”. European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 24-38, doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14532.
Maresch, Rudolf, und Florian Rotzer, (Hrsg). Renaissance der Utopie: Zukunftsfiguren des 21. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004.
Michael D. Gordin. Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility. Princeton ua: Princeton UnivPress, 2010.
Mohr, Dunja M. „Transgressive Utopian Dystopias: The Postmodern Reappearance of Utopia in the Disguise of Dystopia“, o. J.
Moylan, Tom. Scraps of the untainted sky: science fiction, utopia, dystopia. Cultural studies series. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
Moylan, Tom, und Raffaella Baccolini, (Hrsg). Dark horizons: science fiction and the dystopian imagination. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
Ogawa, Yōko. Insel der verlorenen Erinnerung. Roman. Berlin: Aufbau, 2022.
Payne, Mark. Flowers of time: on postapocalyptic fiction Princeton University Press, 2020.
Rassidakis, Alexandra. „Die dystopische Heiterkeit von Marc-Uwe Klings multimedialem QualityLand“. In: Friederike Eigler (Hg.): Utopie – Dystopie – Zukünftigkeit / Utopia – Dystopia – Futurity. De Gruyter 2024. S. 157-179.
Rassidakis, Alexandra.“ Rhetorik der Angst: Technologie und Religion in dystopischen Weltentwürfen“. In: Elke Sturm-Trigonakis, Olga Laskaridou, Evi Petropoulou, Katerina Karakassi (Hg.), Turns und kein Ende? Aktuelle Tendenzen in Germanistik und Komparatistik. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017, 243-256.
Rassidakis, Alexandra.“ Zwischen Apokalypse und Paradies: Konzepte `grüner´ Religiosität in Margaret Atwoods MaddAddam-Trilogie“. In: Christiane Solte-Gresser / Claudia Schmitt (Hg.) Literatur und Ökologie. Neue literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Ästhesis, 2017. 295-310.
Ρασιδάκη, Αλεξάνδρα. „Από την αντίσταση στη μελαγχολία: Ο ρόλος της ενθύμησης στην δυστοπική μυθοπλασία“. Ιn: Γιάννης Παγκαλος, Ελένη Γεωργοπούλου (Hg.), Μνήμη και αφήγηση, Thessaloniki. Kyriakidis 2020, S. 103-122.
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