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Lecture 17: Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic
very informative, Wells incorporated some of Darwin's discoveries

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Lecture 18: The History of Utopia

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Lecture 16: Jules Verne and the Robinsonade

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Lecture 17: Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic

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Lecture 15: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complexar
[last 3rd, section on Poe's 'scientific' language]

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Lecture 16: Jules Verne and the Robinsonade

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Lecture 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction

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Lecture 15: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complex

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Lecture 13: Defining Science Fiction

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Lecture 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction

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Lecture 11: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic
Lecture 12: Postmodernism and the Fantastic

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Lecture 13: Defining Science Fiction

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Lecture 10: Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic

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Lecture 11: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic

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Lecture 9: Robbe-Grillet—Experimental Fiction & Myth
That was great. I would never have understood Robbe-Grillet without this discussion. Professor focuses on "The Erasers" but includes myth, Roland Barthes, Freud, Levi Strauss.

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Lecture 10: Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic

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Lecture 8: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art

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Lecture 9: Robbe-Grillet—Experimental Fiction & Myth

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Lecture 7: Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies

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Lecture 8: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art

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Lecture 6: H.G. Wells—We Are All Talking Animals

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Lecture 7: Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies

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Lecture 5: Lewis Carroll—Puzzles, Language, & Audience

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Lecture 6: H.G. Wells—We Are All Talking Animals

This is a reread.
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1-Brothers Grimm & Fairy Tale Psychology
2-Propp, Structure, and Cultural Identity
3-Hoffmann and the Theory of the Fantastic
4-Poe--Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic

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5-Lewis Carroll -- Puzzles, Language, & Audience

Finished 4-Poe--Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic

Starting 5-Lewis Carroll -- Puzzles, Language, & Audience

Finished 3-Hoffmann and the Theory of the Fantastic"
Starting 4-Poe--Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic

Finished:
1-Brothers Grimm & Fairy Tale Psychology
2-Propp, Structure, and Cultural Identity

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3-Hoffmann and the Theory of the Fantastic