Spivak's "Planetarity" and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
In which we discuss Shelley's "Mont Blanc" and Blake's "Introduction to Songs of Experience" and "Earth's Answer"
In which we introduce the core ideas of the class through divergences and discussions
In which we discuss the second wave feminism of Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber"
Continuing our discussion on Kraken through a Marxist lens.
In which we introduce and ping pong through China Miéville's Kraken.
In which we discuss Kiernan's "Fake Plastic Trees" and Blackwood's "The Willows" from an ecocritical lens.
In which we discuss Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo", Phoenix Boudreau's "Hunger", and Mathilda Zeller's "Kushtuka"
In which we discuss - in a broadly psychoanalytic framework - Frantz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "The Hell Screen".
Second class on Lovecraft. Reading at the Mountains of Madness through a structuralist lens.
Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness', reader response theory, self-referentiality
In which we discuss the early influences of Weird fiction through Romanticism, modernity, fin de siècle literature like Poe & Gilman.