Literature and Technology

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The goal of this course will be to understand the relationship of literature and technology over time. We will study some of the most important novels, short stories, critical essays, and films from the last two hundred years in order to ask how literary writing defines technology and mediates its impact upon society. With an an emphasis on science fiction, this course will teach you to think like a literary scholar, and to employ the discipline’s core research methods, including formal and rhetorical analysis.