| Call Number | 00641 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
TR 11:40am-12:55pm 306 Milbank Hall (Barnard) |
| Points | 3 |
| Grading Mode | Pass/Fail |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | John J Pagano |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | A survey of fantasy works that examines the transformative role of the Imagination in aesthetic and creative experience, challenges accepted boundaries between the imagined and the real, and celebrates Otherness and Magicality in a disenchanted world. Readings will be selected from fairy tales, Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Tempest; Romantic poetry by Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and Dickinson; Romantic art by Friedrich, Waterhouse, and Dore; Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Lewis Carrolls Alice books, Tennysons Idylls of the King, Tolkiens Lord of the Rings; Magical Realist works by Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Allende; Sondheim - Lapines Into the Woods, Rushdies Haroun and the Sea of Stories. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard |
| Enrollment | 16 students (16 max) as of 3:06PM Saturday, April 27, 2024 |
| Subject | First-Year Seminar |
| Number | BC1189 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Barnard College |
| Campus | Barnard College |
| Note | Barnard 1st Year Students Only |
| Section key | 20233FYSB1189X001 |