EGL 320 - Literature of the Fantastic

Class Hours: 3, Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): EGL 220
This course centers on the reading and analysis of quality supernatural fiction and defines literature of the fantastic in terms that the average student may comprehend and thus relate to, within the larger context of a true literary genre. The authors dealt with come from a wide range of ancient and modern writers (both Eastern and Western) whose works represent the patterns and uses of the supernatural as it functions in society. Several important issues raised by contemporary critical theory are also examined, such as reader-response, the relation between comedy and the fantastic as well as that between literature and madness, and the link between aesthetic experience and social context.
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