Defining Our Terms
August 26 “Introductions and Beginnings”
Welcome to the Uncanny
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August 28 “Frightened/Frightening Children”
What is so Scary about Eyes and Mirrors?
September 2
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
September 4 “Dystopia and the Bizarre”
Down the Rabbit Hole!
September 9
Does Theory Help or Harm?
Parisian Anxieties
September 11 “Baudelaire and Terrible Beauty”
Has It All Been Said Before?
September 16 “Angry Escapes”
The Doors, Patti Smith, and beyond
September 18 “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…”
Doré’s Bad Dreams, or How to Design your Nightmare
September 20 (please note change of date!)
FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE (2-page essay)
September 23 “Control(Freak)ing Your World”
Moreau’s and Rédon’s Hallucinations
September 25 “Eros and Thanatos”
“The Women of Klimt and Schiele”
Cave, Minogue, and Davies, “Where The Wild Roses Grow” (1995)
Ruiz, Klimt (2006) Curtis, The Woman in Gold (2015)
Klimt (ppt)
September 30 “Waking Up”
Absinthe Art
London’s Secrets
October 2 “Daydreaming and Decadence”
Decadent London?
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Chapters 1-3
October 7 “Doing Research at UT Austin”
Introduction to UT Libraries
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October 9 “The Art of Necrophilia”
How Many More Ophelias?
Wilde, Chapters 4-7
October 14 “The Beautiful Allure of Evil”
Schoenberg’s “Glances” and Mapplethorpe’s photographs
Wilde, Chapters 8-11
October 14
SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE (research report)
October 16 “The Price of Beauty and Eternal Youth”
Nostalgia for Your Own Past
Wilde, Chapters 12-20
October 16:
PART 1 OF “DREAM ANALYSES” DUE
October 21 “New Urban Terrors”
Dystopic London?
Stoker, Dracula (1897), Chapters 1-6
October 23 “Old Country Terrors”
The Kindness of Strangers and Encountering the Alien
Stoker, Chapters 7-12
October 28 “Angels and Devils”
What Makes a “Woman” Modern? and Scary?
Stoker, Chapters 13-17
October 30 “What Exactly Is the Attraction of Vampires”
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, Chapters 18-23
November 4 “Does Terror Age Gracefully?”
De-“coding” the Vampire
Stoker, Chapters 24-27
November 4
THIRD ASSIGNMENT DUE (prospectus)
Moscow’s Demons and Dogs
November 6 “Animal Apparitions”
Images by Steinlen, Bilibin, Vrubel and Repin
November 11 “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”
Outcasts, Veterans, and Bandits
Bortko, Heart of a Dog (1988)
Adabashyan, Azazel (2002)
Sidorov, Brigada (2002)
Repin, Vrubel, and Bilibin (ppt)
November 13 “Scientific Dystopia and the Uncanny Valley”
Cyborgs and Clones
November 18 “More and Less than Human”
More and Less than Human
November 20 “What Exactly Is Surrealism?”
Magritte, Dalì, and friends
November 20
FOURTH ASSIGNMENT DUE (Video Project)
November 25-29
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 2 “Surrealist Aftermaths and The Modern Double”
The Uncanny Valley
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