Masterpieces of the imaginative mind. [Part 1, part 2] : Literature's most fantastic works

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Masterpieces of the imaginative mind. [Part 1, part 2] : Literature's most fantastic works

Alternate title:

Literature's most fantastic works

Author:

Rabkin, Eric S.

Teaching Company.

Series:

Great courses.

Summary:

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.

General Note:

DVD.

Cataloged from disc surface and packaging.

"Literature & English language"--Container insert.

Contents:

disc 1. part 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 -- 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. The 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.

Physical Description:

4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 131 p. ; 22 cm.)

Genre:

Educational films.

Subject Term:

Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.

Fantasy literature -- History and criticism.

Science fiction -- History and criticism.

Fantasy literature -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids.

Author(s):

Rabkin, Eric S.

Added Corporate Author:

Teaching Company.

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Publication Date:

2007

ISBN:

9781598032901

Publication Information:

[S.l.] : Teaching Co., c2007.

Call Number:

GC 823 MASTERPIECES

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Summary

Many of literature's greatest works, from ancient myths to the works of Nobel laureates, rely on fantasy. Even when there has been a dominant preference for realism, generation after generation of readers have been drawn to stories of the fantastic not only for what they help us learn about ourselves as individuals and about our collective selves but also for what they show about our social values.

Summary

Professor Rabkin explores classic masterpieces of the imaginative mind from famous authors such as Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Jules Verne, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and more.