Masterpieces of the imaginative mind. literature's most fantastic works
(DVD)

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Rabkin, Eric S.
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Published
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2007.
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Description

University of Michigan professor Eric S. Rabkin discusses the fantastic in its most important modern variety, science fiction, as part of the entire course on fantasy literature.

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Published
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2007.
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English

Notes

General Note
"Literature & English language"--Container insert.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-71) in accompanying guidebook.
Participants/Performers
Lecturer: Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan.
Description
University of Michigan professor Eric S. Rabkin discusses the fantastic in its most important modern variety, science fiction, as part of the entire course on fantasy literature.
System Details
DVD.

Table of Contents

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.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rabkin, E. S. (2007). Masterpieces of the imaginative mind: literature's most fantastic works (Library ed.). Teaching Co..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rabkin, Eric S. 2007. Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works. Chantilly, VA: Teaching Co.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rabkin, Eric S. Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works Chantilly, VA: Teaching Co, 2007.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Rabkin, E. S. (2007). Masterpieces of the imaginative mind: literature's most fantastic works. Library ed. Chantilly, VA: Teaching Co.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rabkin, Eric S. Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works Library ed., Teaching Co., 2007.

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