COMP.LIT 165-----STUDY QUESTIONS/ PAPER TOPICS





Eight Week Summer Session

First Quarter.  Aeschylus, The Oresteia. Selections from Sappho, Hesiod's Theogony, mythological imagery in popular science writing and animism in the belief of contemporary scientists (Gaia hypothesists). Hitchcock's Psycho.

Second Quarter.  The Book of Revelation,  The Enuma Elish.  Selections from Genesis, The Book of Enoch, Plato's Phaedrus & Republic, Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, St. Theresa's autobiography, James Varieties of Religious Experience, Eliade Shamanism. , accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Herzog's Nosferatu.

Third Quarter. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Selected vampire lore, lore about gnomes, faeries and the like, accounts of abductions by extraterrestrials. Scott's Blade Runner
 

Fourth Quarter. Gibson, Count Zero. "Mysticism". Haitian religious and folklore material.Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Files. Kubrick's  Dr. Strangelove
 
 



 

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