Masterpieces of the imaginative mind : literature's most fantastic works

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University of Michigan professor Eric S. Rabkin discusses the fantastic in its most important modern variety, science fiction, as part of the entire course on fantasy literature. Abstract: University of Michigan professor Eric S. Rabkin discusses the fantastic in its most important modern variety, science fiction, as part of the entire course on fantasy literature Content: disc 1. part 1. lecture 1. Brothers Grimm & fairy tale psychology lecture 2. Propp, structure, and cultural identity lecture 3. Hoffman and the theory of the fantastic lecture 4. Poe : genres and degrees of the fantastic lecture 5. Lewis Carroll : puzzles, language, & audience lecture 6. H.G. Wells : we are all talking animals -- disc 2. part 1. lecture 7. Franz Kafka : dashed fantasies lecture 8. Woolf : fantastic feminism & periods of art lecture 9. Robbe-Grillet : experimental fiction & myth lecture 10. Tolkien & mass production of the fantastic lecture 11. Children's literature and the fantastic lecture 12. Postmodernism and the fantastic -- disc 3. part 2. lecture 13. Defining science fiction lecture 14. Mary Shelley : grandmother of science fiction lecture 15. Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden complex lecture 16. Jules Verne and the Robinsonade lecture 17. Wells : industrialization of the fantastic lecture 18. History of utopia -- disc 4. part 2. lecture 19. Science fiction and religion lecture 20. Pulp fiction, Bradbury, & the American myth lecture 21. Robert A. Heinlein : he mapped the future lecture 22. Asimov and Clarke : cousins in utopia lecture 23. Ursula K. Le Guin : transhuman anthropologist lecture 24. Cyberpunk, postmodernism, and beyond.