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LITR 4632: Literature of the Future Summer 2007 Instructor: Craig White M,T, & Th 9am-noon, Bayou 1213 Office: 2529-8 Bayou Phone: 281 283 3380 E-mail: whitec@uhcl.edu Office Hours: Mondays & Thursdays, 12-1, 6-6:30, and by appointment Course webpage: http://coursesite.cl.uh.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/4632
Reading & Presentation Schedule--LITR 4632, Summer 2007 (BC = Burning Chrome; FP = Future Primitive; VN = Virtually Now)
Tuesday, 29 May: course introduction; narrative: apocalypse. Begin Genesis and Revelation (handouts)
Thursday, 31 May: narrative: apocalypse conclude Genesis and Revelation Future-vision presenter: Pam Richey
Monday, 4 June: narrative:
apocalypse begin Parable of the Sower (through p. 191, or through
chapter 17) Discussion-starter: Whitney Evans Future-vision presenter: Patty Coleman Future-vision presenter: Holly Bailey
Tuesday, 5 June: narrative: apocalypse finish reading Parable of the Sower (through p. 296) Discussion-starter: Ashley White Future-vision presenter: Paula Upham Web-highlighter (midterms concerning Parable of Sower): Lindsey Kerckhoff
Thursday, 7 June: narrative: apocalypse conclude Parable of the Sower; narrative: evolution "Stone Lives" (handout) and "Bears Discover Fire" (FP 17-28) Future-vision presenter: Jenna Zucha Future-vision presenter: Lindsey Kerckhoff
Monday, 11 June: narrative: evolution "Somebody up there Likes Me" (VN 208-237); begin The Time Machine ("Life of H. G. Wells," v-viii; "Introduction," ix-xvi; pp. 1-64 (through ch. 5). Future-vision presenter: Ashley Schaller Future-vision presenter: Jennifer McCord Web-highlighter (midterms on evolution and/or Time Machine): Paula Upham
Tuesday, 12 June: narrative: evolution conclude The Time Machine (65-120; ch. 6 through epilogue; "Afterword," 121-125; narrative: alternative futures Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades" (handout) Future-vision presenter: Jenny Aleman-Spray Future-vision presenter: Ashley White Web-highlighter (midterms on alternative futures): Ashley Schaller
Thursday, 14 June: narrative: alternative futures "Garden of Forking Paths" (handout); "The Gernsback Continuum" (BC 23-35); "Better Be Ready 'bout Half Past Eight" (VN 22-47); Discussion-starter: Cheryl Voskamp Future-vision presenter: Tracie Gipson Future-vision presenter: Whitney Evans
Monday, 18 June: midterm exam on apocalyptic, evolutionary, and alternative narratives of the future
Tuesday, 19 June: scenario: high tech; virtual reality (style: cyberpunk, anti-romance): "Johnny Mnemonic," (BC 1-22); "Burning Chrome," (BC 168-191); "The Logical Legend of Heliopause and Cyberfiddle" (VN 159-180). Discussion-starter: Emily Sevier Future-vision presenter: William Bazemore Web-highlighter (final exams from previous semesters): Ashley Jones
Thursday, 21 June: low tech (traces of organic human nature and traditional culture in high tech world; style: romance): "The Onion and I," (VN 8-21)."Drapes and Folds," (VN 126-139)."Speech Sounds"(VN 91-108). Discussion-starter: Holly Bailey Future-vision presenter: Emily Sevier
Monday, 25 June: scenario: utopia / dystopia / ecotopia: K. S. Robinson, “Introduction” to Future Primitive. "Chocco," (FP 189-214); "House of Bones," (FP 85-110) Future-vision presenter: Karol Davis Future-vision presenter: Brooke Goodson Web-highlighter: Jenny Aleman-Spray
Tuesday, 26 June: scenario: off-planet; alien contact & near-contact: Ursula K. Le Guin, "Newton's Sleep" (FP, 311-338); "Men on the Moon" (VN 238-247); "Hinterlands" (BC 58-79). Discussion-starter: Jennifer McCord Future-vision presenter: Ashley Jones Future-vision presenter: Ashley Bedford
Thursday, 28 June: scenario: alien contact & near-contact: "Homelanding," (VN 3-7)."They're Made out of Meat," (VN 69-72)."The Poplar Street Study" (VN 140-148); "The Belonging Kind" (BC 43-57). Discussion-starter: William Bazemore Future-vision presenter: Laura Moran Future-vision presenter: Cheryl Voskamp
Monday, 2 July: final exam (in-class or email)
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