CPLT 020: Tales of the Supernatural: Literature of the Monstrous and the Uncanny

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Units: 5

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; written work, 2 hours

Catalog page 183

Prerequisites: none

Description: Explores fiction relating to the supernatural, the uncanny, and the monstrous. Considers a wide variety of texts from diverse national literatures and traditions. Focuses on the interaction of notions of the supernatural with con- cepts of modernity and technological “progress.”