Defining Our Terms
August 30 “Introductions and Beginnings”
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September 4
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
September 6 “Frightened/Frightening Children”
What is so Scary about Eyes and Mirrors?
September 11 “Dystopia and the Bizarre”
Down the Rabbit Hole!
September 13 “Defining the Uncanny”
Does Theory Help or Harm?
September 15
MUSEUM VISIT: All Discussion Sections Visit the Blanton Museum for Guided Tours
Parisian Anxieties
September 18 “Baudelaire and Terrible Beauty”
Has It All Been Said Before?
September 20 “Angry Escapes”
The Doors, Patti Smith, and beyond
September 25 “To Sleep Perchance to Dream”
FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE (2-page essay)
Doré’s Bad Dreams, or How to Design your Nightmare
September 27 “Control(Freaking)ing Your World”
Moreau’s and Rédon’s Hallucinations
October 2 “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)
October 4 “Waking Up”
Absinthe Art
London’s Secrets
October 9 “Daydreaming and Decadence”
Decadent London?
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), pages 1-49
October 11 “The Art of Necrophilia”
How Many More Ophelias?
Wilde, pages 50-104
October 16:
Individual Conferences with TAs on Research Topics
October 18 “The Beautiful Allure of Evil”
Schoenberg’s “Glances” and Mapplethorpe’s photographs
Wilde, 105-65
October 18:
SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE (research report)
October 23 “The Price of Beauty and Eternal Youth”
PART 1 OF “DREAM ANALYSES” DUE
Nostalgia for Your Own Past
Wilde, 166-254
Occidental/Oriental Nightmares
October 25 “New Urban Terrors”
Dystopic London?
Stoker, Dracula (1897), pages 9-74
October 30 “Old Country Terrors”
The Kindness of Strangers and Encountering the Alien
Stoker, pages, 75-147
November 6 “What Exactly Is the Attraction of Vampires”
THIRD ASSIGNMENT DUE (prospectus)
New Hatreds and New Vampires
Stoker, pages 273-327
Moscow’s Demons and Dogs
November 13 “Animal Apparitions”
Images by Steinlen, Bilibin, Vrubel and Repin
Bortko, Heart of a Dog(1988)
Adabashyan, Azazel(2002)
Sidorov, Brigada (2002)
Repin, Vrubel, and Bilibin (ppt)
November 20 “Scientific Dystopia and the Uncanny Valley”
FOURTH ASSIGNMENT DUE (8-page analytic research essay)
Cyborgs and Clones
November 22/24
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 27 “More and Less than Human”
More and Less than Human
November 29 “What Exactly Is Surrealism?”
Magritte, Dalì, and friends
December 4 “Surrealist Film”
PART 2 OF “BOOK OF DREAM ANALYSES” DUE
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