The utopian tradition in European literature
Walter Veit
8 or 12 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton
The main objective of the subject is an understanding of the relationship between continuity and change in literature. Using as its material utopian texts, it is proposed to study in depth the tradition and function of rhetoric, topics and poetics in European literature within the frame of an argumentative theory of literature. Students will be encouraged to concentrate on aspects particularly important to their individual disciplines.
Assessment: 8 points
Written (6000 words): 100%
Assessment: 12 points
Written (9000 words): 100%
Prescribed texts
Cohn N The pursuit of the millennium Paladin
Curtius E R European literature and the Latin Middle Ages Princeton UP
Hesiod Works and days Penguin
More T Utopia Penguin
Plato Timaeus and Critias Penguin