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Finished:
The House-Hunters by Peter Green

Starting:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall Paper

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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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The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship by Gabriel García Márquez

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The House-Hunters by Peter Green

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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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"Faithful Peter" by Lion Feuchtwanger ****

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"The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" by Gabriel García Márquez

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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.
Finished:
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 Book VII and commentary by Bloom.
This was the turning point Book for me after reading Bloom's commentary.

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Ratanbabu and that Man by Satyajit Ray 3/3/2026 ***1/2
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul 3/3/2026 ***1/2

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8. Faithful Peter by Lion Feuchtwanger

Starting Chapter 30

Finished:
Book 1: The Thing Was
Chapter 16-24

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Book 1: The Thing Was
Chapter 25

Finished:
The Visiting Star by Robert Aickman 2/27/2026 **

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Ratanbabu and that Man by Satyajit Ray

Finished:
Book the First: The Cup and the Lip
Chapter 4 The R. Wilfer Family
Chapter 5 Boffin's Bower

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Book the First: The Cup and the Lip
Chapter 6: Cut Adrift

Finished Book 1: Chapters 8-16

Finished Part 1: Chapters 1-7

This is already on its way to becoming a favorite!

430

Finished Book 6:
shifts from the city's structure to epistemology and metaphysics, explaining why only philosophers grasp true justice. Introducing key ideas about knowledge, reality, the Form of the Good (vs fleeting opinions, pleasures), Philosopher-kings, and the divided line analogy (hierarchy of reality & knowledge imagining a line divided unequally into visible and intelligible realms, each further subdivided.

reading Book VI

(42:15 audible)

This is a reread.

Finished:
BOOK THE FIRST — THE CUP AND THE LIP
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3


31.25
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Chapter 4

Finished
Ch'ien-niang by Chen Xuanyou

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The Visiting Star by Robert Aickman

Starting Section V: Fame

2:57:25

Finished:
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Why I Changed into a Nightingale
The Troll by T. H. White
Two Words by Isabel Allende

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Chen Xuanyou by Ch'ien-niang