Masterpieces of the imaginative mind: literature's most fantastic works

Part 1: Disc 1. lecture 1. The 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 ; Disc 2. lecture 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 ; Part 2: Disc 3. 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. The history of utopia ; Disc 4. 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.