Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-219E/B3
- Cím
- Irodalmi szövegolvasás 2: 20. századi angolszász science fiction
- Tervezett félév
- Mindkét
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- One of the most pressing issues of our contemporary world is the nature of the relationship between humans and science, between humanity as a collective and the technological environment we created around ourselves. Science fiction (SF for short) offers the best possibilities of mapping out these complicated relations, and being a capacious mode of thinking, it also deals with questions pertaining to the fields of society and philosophy. The aim of this course is to introduce students to this wide-ranging and thoroughly enjoyable literary genre.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- A selection of contemporary sf novels as specified by the instructor. All the texts are from the 20th and 21st centuries. Cultural and theoretical background: the dominant trends of contemporary sf criticism, coupled with some salient points of interest in post-World War literary theory, as well as writings that deal with the relationship between popular and so-called “high” culture.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Mark offered based on in-class activity and four take-home papers or oral exam
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Compulsory: Four novels by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, Neal Stephenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ann Leckie. If time allows, theoretical texts connected to the primary readings will also be looked at.