Hamlet,
William Shakespeare
Dr
Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
The
Revenger's Tragedy, Thomas Middleton.
The
Alchemist, Ben Jonson.
The
Knight of the Burning Pestle, Francis Beaumont
COMPLIT 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