Brothers Grimm & fairy tale psychology ; Propp, structure, and cultural identity ; Hoffman and the theory of the fantastic ; Poe : genres and degrees of the fantastic ; Lewis Carroll : puzzles, language, & audience ; H.G. Wells : we are all talking animals -- Franz Kafka : dashed fantasies ; Woolf : fantastic feminism & periods of art ; Robbe-Grillet : experimental fiction & myth ; Tolkien & mass production of the fantastic ; Children's literature and the fantastic ; Postmodernism and the fantastic -- Defining science fiction ; Mary Shelley : grandmother of science fiction ; Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden complex ; Jules Verne and the Robinsonade ; Wells : industrialization of the fantastic ; History of utopia -- Science fiction and religion ; Pulp fiction, Bradbury, & the American myth ; Robert A. Heinlein : he mapped the future ; Asimov and Clarke : cousins in utopia ; Ursula K. Le Guin : transhuman anthropologist ; Cyberpunk, postmodernism, and beyond.
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