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Category: Utopia/Dystopia

Posted on:February 25, 2018April 29, 2021Literature Utopia/Dystopia Victorian Bits

The Fixed Period: A Time Without Violins

Brace yourself.  Try to imagine a world in which the violin has become “nearly obsolete.” I know, right?!  You’ve nearly fallen to your knees, begging for mercy, asking yourself why. Why, great creator, did humanity ever get to this point? I am a big fan of the violin.  I am learning to play it at almost 40 […]

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Posted on:December 26, 2013April 29, 2021Gender and Sexuality Literature Utopia/Dystopia

The Drought: A Woman’s Plague

Timelessness is the cure for a 10 year drought in Ballard’s novel The Drought (British, 1964), in which Dr. Charles Ransom learns how to navigate the desolate new landscape that surrounds him.  Around him people change into picaresque, circus-like versions of their previous selves: they morph into who they truly are.  For some characters, such […]

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Posted on:August 25, 2013April 29, 2021Literature Utopia/Dystopia

The Last Man in Shelley’s Prolonged Apocalypse

One overlooked end-of-the-world text is Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man (British, 1826) in which a plague invades Europe and, eventually, the world.  This repetitive, cyclical text feels even longer than Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and yet less events occur to move the plot forward.  Shelley’s vision of the end of times is vastly […]

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Posted on:March 30, 2012April 29, 2021Emotion and Affect Literature Utopia/Dystopia

The Hunger Games: Starving for Love

My students this semester have been really open to the exchange of literature. Every week I await the handing-over of a new favorite book from a student as we make an exchange of books. Most recently, I have read the first book of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (American, 2008-2010) trilogy, which is timely since […]

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