开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: Unknown
所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: University of Michigan(美国密歇根大学) 授课老师: Eric Rabkin |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/fantasysf
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Fantasy is a key term both in psychology and in the art and artifice of
humanity. The things we make, including our stories, reflect, serve, and
often shape our needs and desires. We see this everywhere from fairy tale
to kiddie lit to myth; from "Cinderella" to Alice in Wonderland to Superman;
from building a fort as a child to building ideal, planned cities as whole
societies. Fantasy in ways both entertaining and practical serves our persistent
needs and desires and illuminates the human mind. Fantasy expresses itself
in many ways, from the comfort we feel in the godlike powers of a fairy
godmother to the seductive unease we feel confronting Dracula. From a practical
viewpoint, of all the fictional forms that fantasy takes, science fiction,
from Frankenstein to Avatar, is the most important in our modern
world because it is the only kind that explicitly recognizes the profound
ways in which science and technology, those key products of the human mind,
shape not only our world but our very hopes and fears. This course will
explore Fantasy in general and Science Fiction in specific both as art
and as insights into ourselves and our world.
This course comprises ten units. Each will include a significant reading, typically a novel or a selection of shorter works. I will offer video discussions of each of the readings and also of more general topics in art and psychology that those readings help illuminate. Each unit will include online quizzes and ask you to write a brief essay offering your own insights into the reading. In order, the units are:
In Unit I, the specific stories are the ones in the Lucy Crane translation (1886) which was published by Dover and is available online through Project Gutenberg. In Unit V, the specific readings are: Hawthorne's "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and "The Artist of the Beautiful"; Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Oval Portrait," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "The Bells," "The Raven," "Annabel Lee." All the readings except Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness will be available online at no charge.
We understand the world — and our selves — through stories. Then some of those hopes and fears become the world.
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