Literature's most fantastic works Rabkin, Eric S. 1946- creator Teaching Company text bibliography vau Chantilly, Va Teaching Co. c2007 2007 monographic eng

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2 v. ; 21 cm. 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. v.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 -- Literature 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 -- v. 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 --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. Eric S. Rabkin. Course no. 2997. "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references. Education Teaching Ciencia ficción Historia y crítica Educación Enseñanza Literatura fantástica Historia y crítica LB 14.6 R116m 2007 1598032917 9781598032918 2011377509 DLC 120409 20230411090133.0 17247672