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Klowey
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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
Mar 05, 2026 09:48PM
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Klowey
Klowey is 71% done
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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
Mar 24, 2026 12:47AM
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Klowey
Klowey is 66% done
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Lecture 16: Jules Verne and the Robinsonade

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Lecture 17: Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic
Mar 15, 2026 05:32PM
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Klowey
Klowey is 63% done
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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
Mar 14, 2026 01:23AM
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Klowey
Klowey is 58% done
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Lecture 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction

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Lecture 15: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complex
Mar 08, 2026 03:41AM
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Klowey
Klowey is 54% done
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Lecture 13: Defining Science Fiction

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Lecture 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction
Mar 07, 2026 09:35PM
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Klowey
Klowey is 50% done
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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
Mar 07, 2026 05:12PM
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Klowey
Klowey is 42% done
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Lecture 10: Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic

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Lecture 11: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic
Mar 07, 2026 04:24AM
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Klowey
Klowey is 38% done
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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
Mar 06, 2026 11:02PM
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Klowey
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Lecture 8: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art

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Lecture 9: Robbe-Grillet—Experimental Fiction & Myth
Mar 06, 2026 07:38PM
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Klowey
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Lecture 7: Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies

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Lecture 8: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art
Mar 06, 2026 03:20AM
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