TTC - Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature’s Most Fantastic Works
Course No. 2997 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Eric S. Rabkin University of Michigan Ph.D., University of Iowa 1. The Brothers Grimm & Fairy Tale Psychology 2. Propp, Structure, and Cultural Identity 3. Hoffmann and the Theory of the Fantastic 4. Poe—Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic 5. Lewis Carroll: Puzzles, Language, & Audience Reuploaded Thanks to floarea
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This much needed book will be an invaluable companion to those who are already enthusiastic about the work of Diana Wynne Jones, as well as being a more than useful guide to those as yet relatively unfamiliar with her novels. Mendelsohn's emphasis is on Jones as a writer of critical fantasy, and the distinctions she draws between different varieties of fantasy (such as portal-quest and immersive) are particularly helpful in the light they throw on her claim that Jones's novels are in effect teaching young readers how to read the fantastic intelligently and critically.
Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin: Readings in Dostoyevsky's Fantastic Realism
Recent developments in critical theory form the basis for this new study of Dostoyevsky which evaluates the radical contributions to Dostoyevsky criticism made by the critic and literary theorist M.M. Bakhtin. Malcolm Jones first redefines Dostoyevsky's much-debated "fantastic realism"; accepting Bakhtin's reading of Dostoyevsky in its essentials, he seeks out its weaknesses and develops it in new directions.
This science fiction story of inner space is based on the popular motion picture, that tells of an experiment in miniaturization to clear a blood clot from the brain of an indispensable scientist (based on the movie). Reuploaded Thanks to floarea
