ENG 503 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cahiers Du Cinéma, Michael Moorcock, William S. Burroughs
12 Feb 2016
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Whether language and speech is indicative of humanity. Problems of moral authority; it"s a book that undercuts its spokespersons; it"s ambiguous and hard to pin. The new wave is sci fi associated with inner space, not outer space. One if its favourite topics is entropy: the eventual winding down of all systems due to the inevitable loss of energy. A long recognized sub genre of sci fi. Utopian literature, with its attempt to imagine an ideal, alternative future society, is a cornerstone of all sci fi. The word utopia comes into english form the greek and refers to a place: outopia no place, eutopia good place. Thus a utopia is a non existent place of social perfection. In western literature, utopian writing is as old as plato"s republic. Structural features of utopia: changed nature of work, quest, initiate, social equality, educational reform, universal justice.
