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Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works

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Learn what fairy tales and science fiction stories can reveal about the psyches of individuals and nations in this illuminating journey through the world's most fantastic and imaginative literature.

Syllabus

  • 01: The Brothers Grimm & Fairy Tale Psychology
  • 02: Propp, Structure, and Cultural Identity
  • 03: Hoffmann and the Theory of the Fantastic
  • 04: Poe—Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic
  • 05: Lewis Carroll: Puzzles, Language, & Audience
  • 06: H. G. Wells: We Are All Talking Animals
  • 07: Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies
  • 08: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art
  • 09: Robbe-Grillet, Experimental Fiction & Myth
  • 10: Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic
  • 11: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic
  • 12: Postmodernism and the Fantastic
  • 13: Defining Science Fiction
  • 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction
  • 15: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complex
  • 16: Jules Verne and the Robinsonade
  • 17: Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic
  • 18: The History of Utopia
  • 19: Science Fiction and Religion
  • 20: Pulp Fiction, Bradbury, & the American Myth
  • 21: Robert A. Heinlein—He Mapped the Future
  • 22: Asimov and Clarke—Cousins in Utopia
  • 23: Ursula K. Le Guin: Transhuman Anthropologist
  • 24: Cyberpunk, Postmodernism, and Beyond
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Eric S. Rabkin

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