Kurs:Other Worlds
| Lfd. | Titel | Abstract | Bewertung |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Devourer of Man to the Sparklepire': Gender, Sexuality and the Vampire | 1298 views | |
| 2 | The Wickedness of Women: Gender and the Witch Trials | 1443 views | |
| American Gothic (I) | Featuring discussions of the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; Alexander Pope's "Windsor-Forest"; pastoralism; the graveyard school; fancy and imagination; Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Wordsworth's preface to Lyrical Ballads; William Cullen Bryant; and the Doppelgänger. | 14573 views | |
| American Gothic (II) | Featuring discussions of the Copyright Act of 1790 and the marketplace for books; literature of virtue; Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and the English Gothic Novel; Edmund Burke; Samuel Richardson; and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly. | 16061 views | |
| American Gothic (III) | Featuring discussions of copyright law and the profession of authorship; Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; Philip Freneau's "To a New England Poet"; Washington Irving's History of New York, "Rip Van Winkle," and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." | 11028 views | |
| Moby-Dick (I) | Featuring discussions of New York and cosmopolitanism; paralipsis; exempla; synecdoche and metonomy; Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism; Michel Foucault; humanism; and the opening chapter of Moby-Dick. | 19558 views | |
| Moby-Dick (II) | Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; intertextuality; Owen Chase's narrative of the sinking of the whaleship Essex; cenotaphs; Biblical culture; and typology. | 17244 views | |
| Moby-Dick (III) | Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; agency; free will; fate and destiny the logic of principal and agent | 11630 views | |
| Moby-Dick (IV) | Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; race and slavery in nineteenth-century America; and Lemuel Shaw. | 8275 views | |
| Moby-Dick (V) | Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick, as well as John William De Forest and the idea of the Great American Novel; cosmopolitanism and deliberative democracy; Raymond Williams; the horizon of expectations; the Melville Revival; and Zoroastrianism. | 7847 views | |
| From Harry Potter to Twilight: Trends in Teen Fiction | Presented by Dr. Libby Gruner, Department of English, as the Arts & Sciences Faculty Experts lecture during UR's 2010 Family Weekend. | 290 views | |
| Bonnie & Clyde | Jerome Christensen is a Professor of English and Film at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of several books, including Romanticism at the End of History; Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society; Practicing Enlightenment: Hume and the Formation of a Literary Career; and Coleridge's Blessed Machine of Language. His current project, which will be published by Princeton University Press, is entitled America's Corporate Art: Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures. In addition to these titles, Christensen has authored dozens of articles on film and romanticism. His talk is entitled "Bonnie and Clyde and the Movements: The New Wave, The New Left and the New Hollywood." | 579 views | |
| History of Romance Novel | Susan Williams, GRCC Asst. professor of History, presents "Dreadful Novels' to Feminist Lit? A History of the Romance Novel" during GRCC's Women's History Symposium 2009. | 813 views | |
| Dr. Matz discusses science fiction and reality in the biology of AVATAR | Pop culture and the academy collide as Science Study Break features relevant faculty and experts from The University of Texas at Austin discussing the reality and fantasy portrayed as fact in science-themed books, television and film. Past presentations have featured presentations on bioterrorism and its treatment in the Fox thriller "24," artificial intelligence gone wild in "2001: A Space Odyssey," the comic realities of Spider-Man and epidemiological models for the proliferation of zombies. | 2460 views | |
| Laurence A. Rickels. Zombies and Vampires. 2011 | Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about mourning in zombie and vampire fiction. In this lecture, Laurence A. Rickels discusses Melanie Klein, D.W. Winnicott, and Freud's theories of loss and mourning in relation to doubles, the underworld, reality-testing, Surrogates, Simulacrum 3, the culture industry, true and false selves, masks, psychosis focusing on transitional objects, Dracula, 30 Days of Night, gadgets and Friedrich Kittler. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Laurence A. Rickels. | 354 views |