ENGL 3826: Fantastic Horizons

Pending official approval from University administration, this new course (hopefully to be offered later at the 2000 level) will be run in Fall 2008 as a special topic.  Here is the proposed calendar description:

This course will trace the rise of fantastic literature into a variety of modern cultural forms (novel, short story, poetry, graphic novel, film, gaming) and explore the ideologies it encodes.  Examining how the fantastic filters the mythic, medieval and romantic, we will be in a position to speculate on how fantasy's various manifestations both tie us to the past and reconstruct identity and society in the postmodern era.