Course details
Name: ENGL - 377
Title: SPECULATIVE FICTION: FANTASY
Section: 11
Semester: Summer - 2022
Credits: 3
Description:
This course will explore alternate realities that are sometimes familiar, seemingly impossible and/or improbable, and that stretch beyond the confines of ordinary space and time. We will examine how Fantasy builds (and sometimes destroys) worlds, incorporates elements drawn from such areas as: fairy tales, myths, legends, horror, sword and sorcery, the supernatural and dreams. We will critique the extent to which these elements may reveal aspects of ourselves, our humanity and our world that we might not wish to acknowledge. The threads which link these texts are the motif of the journey toward knowledge, the ethical dialectics of good and evil, and the fundamental roles assigned to magic, the supernatural, and the imagination. Some of the authors we may read may include: Neil Gaiman, Cormac McCarthy, Shirley Jackson, Ursula LeGuin, N.K. Jemisin, and Octavia Butler. We may also view the following: Spirited Away, and/or The Princess Bride.
Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 9:00 am To 11:30 am
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Other American (TE 1d)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- Class Issues (3d)
Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)
Is course canceled: No