Masterpieces of the imaginative mind : literature's most fantastic works

Content: disc 1. part 1. lecture 1. Brothers Grimm & fairy tale psychology 
 lecture 2. Propp, structure, and cultural identity 
 lecture 3. Hoffman and the theory of the fantastic 
 lecture 4. Poe : genres and degrees of the fantastic 
 lecture 5. Lewis Carroll : puzzles, language, & audience 
 lecture 6. H.G. Wells : we are all talking animals --
disc 2. part 1. lecture 7. Franz Kafka : dashed fantasies 
 lecture 8. Woolf : fantastic feminism & periods of art 
 lecture 9. Robbe-Grillet : experimental fiction & myth 
 lecture 10. Tolkien & mass production of the fantastic 
 lecture 11. Children's literature and the fantastic 
 lecture 12. Postmodernism and the fantastic --
disc 3. part 2. lecture 13. Defining science fiction 
 lecture 14. Mary Shelley : grandmother of science fiction 
 lecture 15. Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden complex 
 lecture 16. Jules Verne and the Robinsonade 
 lecture 17. Wells : industrialization of the fantastic 
 lecture 18. History of utopia --
disc 4. part 2. lecture 19. Science fiction and religion 
 lecture 20. Pulp fiction, Bradbury, & the American myth 
 lecture 21. Robert A. Heinlein : he mapped the future 
 lecture 22. Asimov and Clarke : cousins in utopia 
 lecture 23. Ursula K. Le Guin : transhuman anthropologist 
 lecture 24. Cyberpunk, postmodernism, and beyond.