ENGL 2100Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Locus Amoenus, Utopian And Dystopian Fiction, The Faerie Queene
23 Feb 2016
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The hudson"s bay company (rupert"s land) (2. 379-81) Sir walter raleigh"s the discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful empire of guiana (2. 338-58) Survivor reports the strachey letter recounting a shipwreck in bermuda (tt, Exploration / colonization narratives multiple versions of the john smith. Calls to action michael drayton"s to the virginian voyage (2. 373-4) Montaigne"s essay of cannibals (tt, appendix d) Characterized by agendas of economic or political ( imperial ) expansion. Depictions of epic enterprise and heroic action. The possibility that out there are cultures organized on different principles that would remedy or negate the ills of one"s own society. Critique of the old culture by contrast and negation ( no ) The final step towards utopia = the addition of system, of complexity. Describing a particular state or community distanced geographically (and/or temporally as in science fiction) from the author"s/audience"s own. Which embodies different ideas and ideals from the home culture.
