Apocalyptic-Dystopian Fiction

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This course will consider apocalyptic and dystopian fiction. Texts will consider modern society as a dystopian bureaucratic nightmare, disaster narratives, and speculative science fiction. The course will consider the ways writers have used this basic narrative to explore a wide range of concerns – from feminism and political oppression, to solidarity and the possibility of a just society, to the fusing of popular culture and kitsch into a literary. Alongside novels we will look at short stories, films, and literary theory.