Type of course: | Compulsory |
Language of instruction: | English |
Erasmus Language of instruction: | English |
Name of lecturer: | Petru Stefan Ionescu |
Seminar tutor: | Petru Stefan Ionescu |
Form of education | Full-time |
Form of instruction: | Class / Seminary |
Number of teaching hours per semester: | 42 |
Number of teaching hours per week: | 3 |
Semester: | Autumn |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: | Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 6 |
Starting from the obvious connection existing between science-fiction and our contemporary world, oriented towards dystopian approaches (George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games (2008-2010) as well as towards the perception of the relationship between the human being and the artificial intelligence in a society dominated by very advanced technologies, the course is meant to offer a pertinent image of our level of reality. A level of reality connected with other levels of reality, in an attempt to adapt the transdisciplinary theories to a philological subject of study. It asks from the student a certain encyclopaedic knowledge meant to introduce him in the imaginary of different epochs with an impact on the evolution of mentalities. The course also implies the definition of science-fiction with its subgenres as well as its connections with comparative literature, with mythology, with history and geography, with science and philosophy.
Science-fiction seen as a literary genre offers an adequate description of the contemporary world where the place of the imaginary is so important. The publicity and the market economy lead towards a “colonization of the imaginary”, towards its manipulation.