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C LIT 347

Elements of Genre

3 units

Fall 2019

Topics

  • Dystopian fiction
  • Cross-cultural comparison
  • Social, technological, and environmental change

Readings

  • Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. Random, 2009.
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  • Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Random, 1996.
    unspecified
  • Houellebecq, Michel. The Possibility of an Island. Translated by Gavin Bowd. Random, 2007.
    unspecified
  • Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. Penguin, 1987.
    unspecified
  • Murakami, Haruki. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Knopf Doubleday, 1993.
    unspecified
  • Saramago, José. Blindness. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Harcourt, 1999.
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  • Vassanji, M. G. Nostalgia. Doubleday Canada, 2017.
    unspecified
Sources