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Starting Chapter 9: summary of Chapter Six ~~ Pecuniary Canons of Taste

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Lecture 23: Ursula K. Le Guin— Transhuman Anthropologist

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Lecture 24: Cyberpunk, Postmodernism, and Beyond

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Lecture 22: Asimov and Clarke—Cousins in Utopia

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Lecture 23: Ursula K. Le Guin— Transhuman Anthropologist

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Lecture 21: Robert A. Heinlein—He Mapped the Future

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Lecture 22: Asimov and Clarke—Cousins in Utopia

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Lecture 20: Pulp Fiction, Bradbury,& the American Myth

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Lecture 21: Robert A. Heinlein—He Mapped the Future

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Lecture 19: Science Fiction and Religion

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Lecture 20: Pulp Fiction, Bradbury,& the American Myth

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Lecture 18: The History of Utopia

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Lecture 19: Science Fiction and Religion

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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Eckhardt at a Window by Eric McCormack

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The House-Hunters by Peter Green

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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.
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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 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

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Book 1: The Thing Was
Chapter 16-24

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Book 1: The Thing Was
Chapter 25

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

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Ratanbabu and that Man by Satyajit Ray

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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