Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
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
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Eric S. Rabkin
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