LSPRG
The Landscape Space Place Research Group

'Anarchy, Nostalgia, and Resistance: The Role of Nature and Wild Spaces in Classic Dystopian Fiction' - February Reading Group Session

 
Date(s)
Friday 13th February 2015 (15:00-16:00)
Contact

emma.zimmerman@nottingham.ac.uk

Description

This session will be led by Hollie Johnson, a PhD student from the School of English, who will be talking to us about ‘Anarchy, Nostalgia, and Resistance: The Role of Nature and Wild Spaces in Classic Dystopian Fiction’.

The following readings are available to those on the mailing list:

  • Brian Stableford, ‘Ecology and Dystopia’, The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature, (ed.) Gregory Claeys (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp.259-281
  • Piers H.G. Stephens, ‘The Green Wall: Nature as Oppositional Symbol and Operator in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s Dystopian Frame’, <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580348##> [Accessed: 04/12/14]

As usual, all staff and PG students welcome!

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