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Undergraduate Courses - UW-Madison
Studies in Narrative Lit: Medieval Romance, Renaissance Epic, Modern Fantasy
Beowulf
Tolkien, JRR (editor). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queen
Shakespeare, William. The Winter's Tale
Milton, John. Paradise Lost
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
MacDonald, George. Phantastes
Tolkien, JRR. The Tolkien Reader
—. The Silmarillion
Lewis, C.S. Perelandra
Gardner, John. Grendel
Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale
Studies in Narrative Lit: The Inklings
Tolkien, JRR. The Tolkien Reader
Williams, Charles. Descent Into Hell
Williams, Charles. The Greater Trumps
Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces
—. Out of the Silent Planet
—. Perelandra
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion
—. Lord of the Rings
Integrated Liberal Studies: Literary Interpretation of Technology
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Right Stuff
Essays and fiction by: Joseph Campbell, Karl Marx, St. Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon,
Thomas Huxley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, John Dos
Passos, W.H. Auden, Karel Čapek, E.M. Forster, Jorge Luis Borges, Michael Crichton,
Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, Erich Fromm, et al.
Graduate Courses - UW-Milwaukee
Creative Writing Workshop: Magic & Wonder
Saunders, George. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.
Allen, Woody. "The Diet."
Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Aleph"
Cheever, John. "The Enormous Radio."
Keillor, Garrison. "Ten Stories for Mr. Richard Brautigan, and Other Stories."
Hoban, Russell. "The Devil's Playground"
Link, Kelly. "Magic For Beginners."
Lethem, Jonathan. Fortress of Solitude.
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Trent Hergenrader - WisCon: Teaching SFF
Graduate Courses - UW-Milwaukee
Seminar in Literature: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
Disch, Thomas M. Camp Concentration
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
—. Valis
—. The Divine Invasion
—. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Le Guin, Ursula. The Dispossessed
Piercy, Marge. He, She, and It
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Wild Shore: Three Californias
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake
Ford, Jeffrey. The Physiognomy
Mieville, China. Perdido Street Station
Delany, Samuel R. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Non-fiction Books
Freedman, Carl. Critical Theory and Science Fiction
Jameson, Frederic. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other
Science Fictions
Non-fiction Articles
Csicsery-Ronay, Jr, Istvan - “Dis-Imagined Communities,” Edging into the Future
Delany, Samuel - “About 5750 Words,” The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
—. “Science Fiction and ‘Literature,’” Starboard Wine
—. “Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction,” Starboard Wine
Disch, Thomas - “Big Ideas and Dead-End Thrills: The Further Embarrassments of
Science Fiction,” On SF
—. “The Embarrassments of Science Fiction,” On SF
—. “Ideas: A Popular Misconception,” On SF
—. “Mythology and Science Fiction,” On SF
Gunn, James - “Towards a Definition of Science Fiction,” Speculations on Speculation
James, Edward - “Introduction,” Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
—. “Reading Science Fiction,” Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Jameson, Frederic - “The Politics of Utopia,” New Left Review
Kelly, James Patrick - “Slipstream,” Speculations on Speculation
Landon, Brooks - “Classics and Clunkers: Why Science Fiction Film is Not Science
Fiction Literature and Why That’s Not So Bad,” Aesthetics of Ambivalence
Moylan, Tom - “The Critical Dystopia,” Scraps of the Untainted Sky
—. “Introduction: The Critical Utopia,” Demand the Impossible
—. “Kim Stanley Robinson’s Other California,” Scraps of the Untainted Sky
—. “The Literary Utopia,” Demand the Impossible
—. “Marge Piercy’s Tale of Hope,” Scraps of the Untainted Sky
—. “The Utopian Imagination,” Demand the Impossible
Roemer, Kenneth - “Defining America as Utopia,” America as Utopia
Sargent, Lyman - “The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited,” Utopian Studies
Sobchack, Vivian - “The Limits of the Genre: Definitions and Themes,” Screening Space
Suvin, Darko - “Estrangement and Cognition,” Speculations on Speculation
Wegner, Phillip - “Utopia,” A Companion to Science Fiction
Wolmark, Jenny- “Staying With the Body: Narratives of the Posthuman in Contemporary
Science Fiction,” Edging Into the Future
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