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

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.