Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works

Pt. 1. Lecture 1. The 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

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. Pt. 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. The history of utopia

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.