English Literature Lectures

Week 11 - Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" 28.03.2025 1:54:50 ↓

In which we discuss the second wave feminism of Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber"

Week 10 - Marxism & 'Kraken' (Part 2) 21.03.2025 2:46:55 ↓

Continuing our discussion on Kraken through a Marxist lens.

Week 9 - China Miéville's Kraken (Part 1) 14.03.2025 2:15:25 ↓

In which we introduce and ping pong through China Miéville's Kraken .

Week 7 - It Came From Planet Earth! 21.02.2025 2:07:47 ↓

In which we discuss Kiernan's "Fake Plastic Trees" and Blackwood's "The Willows" from an ecocritical lens.

Week 6 - On Wendigos & (Post)Colonialism 14.02.2025 2:24:57 ↓

In which we discuss Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo", Phoenix Boudreau's "Hunger", and Mathilda Zeller's "Kushtuka"

Week 5 - Kafka & Akutagawa: Psychoanalytic Weird 07.02.2025 1:54:59 ↓

In which we discuss - in a broadly psychoanalytic framework - Frantz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "The Hell Screen".

Week 4 - H.P. Lovecraft: Structural Chaos 31.01.2025 2:04:05 ↓

Second class on Lovecraft. Reading at the Mountains of Madness through a structuralist lens.

Week 3 - Lovecraft's Phenomenal Worlds 24.01.2025 1:57:33 ↓

Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness', reader response theory, self-referentiality

Week 2 - First real class 17.01.2025 2:17:04 ↓

In which we discuss the early influences of Weird fiction through Romanticism, modernity, fin de siècle literature like Poe & Gilman.