1. ENGL 103, Spring 2011, Never Let Me Go INTRODUCTION: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Literary Dystopias + Reading Fiction

2. Part One Literary Dystopias

3. Illustration: Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia. Utopia, Thomas More (1516) Greek terms for ou-topos [no place] and eu-topos [good place]

4. Dystopia Greek terms for “bad-” and “place” or “landscape”

5. Ordering of the Story Utopia: here and there (Place) Dystopia: now and then (Time)

6. Brave New World, published 1932

7. Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1949

8. The Handmaid’s Tale, published 1985

9. Scene from The Matrix (Dir. A. and L. Wachowski, 1999)

10. Part Two Reading Narrative Fiction

11. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author

12. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator

13. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator • Character

14. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator • Character • Narratee

15. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator • Character • Narratee • Reader

16. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought • Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world • Reader: always outside of the story world; receives the narrative

17. •Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world