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It explains worldbuilding as a creative act that constructs languages, laws, architecture, religion, customs, and the causal expectations beneath plot events, using literature as evidence. Students analyze techniques, archetypes, and fictional-world systems, compare the worlds they encounter, and complete creative exercises culminating in projects such as maps, languages, religions, technologies, and imaginative city or planet designs.","English 4145: Worldbuilding and Mythopoesis\nAmos Magliocco\tSpring 2026\namosm@unt.edu\tOffice: \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://unt.zoom.us/j/82447980154\" \u0014Zoom Link Here\u0015\nTentative Reading List (\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://unt.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TBListView?catalogId=10001&storeId=71237&langId=-1&courseXml=%3ctextbookorder%20xmlns=%22%22%3e%3ccourses%3e%3ccourse%20dept=%22ENGL%22%20num=%224145%22%20sect=%22001(13179)%22%20term=%22W26%22%3e%3c/course%3e%3c/courses%3e%3c/textbookorder%3e\" \u0014Link to Campus Bookstore Page\u0015):\nCourse pack distributed by instructor\nThe Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell\nThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (translation by Allen Mandelbaum)\nBurial at Thebes (adaptation of Antigone) by Seamus Heaney\nA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin\nEmbassytown by China Mievelle\nPrimeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk\nGods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia\nCourse Description:\nWorldbuilding is a term game developers borrow from science fiction and fantasy writers who fashioned it from what authors of big novels and epic poems have done for millennia: create strange new worlds with elaborate structures to serve as a stage for narrative. This fundamentally creative act grants the writer license to imagine elaborate systems of language, law, and even love—not to mention architecture, geography, entertainments, religion, customs, and rituals within which their characters exist, choose, and react in ways that create consequences and therefore meaning.\nWhat makes worldbuilding more important than mere stage decoration is how it also describes the web of expectations, actions, and consequences which function underneath a plot. Antigone insists on a proper burial for her dead brother not only because he deserves it, but because it is the only way he can enter the afterlife and therefore it’s her solemn duty to her brother and the gods who await him. There are consequences for failure.\nThe novelist Brandon Taylor defines “moral worldbuilding” in fiction as appearing “…at the layer below event. The layer that speaks to what these events mean in the life of the character and the life of the world unfolding. The layer that situates events in an order traced out by lines of causation that might run invisibly through the circumstances of characters, but which link up solidly and tightly, creating a weave of story.”\nOur course is called Worldbuilding and Mythopoesis. Mythopoesis means, simply, the creation of those foundational stories that societies and cultures tell about themselves to understand who they are and how their day-to-day lives should unfold. If mythopoesis provides the water we swim in, worldbuilding erects the structures in our aquarium, its rooms and tunnels and secret places.\nThis semester, we'll examine characteristics and techniques of myth-making, archetypes, and systems of fictional worlds in various literary works. We'll discuss how these systems order new worlds and provide answers for human experience through foundational texts, ancient plays, and resonant contemporary literature. We will compare the worlds we find. We will make our own.\nWe’ll undertake creative exercises to build individual skills related to worldbuilding with a final course project in mind: maps of planets, continents, and cities; new languages, both spoken and written; religions and systems of workshop and their purpose; alien landscapes seeded them with wild ecosystems; towering architectures and urban spaces to populate with competing political factions and new forms of government. 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