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Class Detail:
WN 2013 English Language and Literature ENGLISH 290 - Themes in Language and Literature Section 001 Monsters, Ghosts, and Devils: Stories that Scare Us
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	HU
Other:	SophInit
Waitlist Capacity:	unlimited
Consent:	With permission of instructor.
Repeatability:	May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit(s).
Primary Instructor:	Brandolino,Gina Marie
	(real time availability for all sections)

If you like scary stories, this course is for you! We will study depictions of frightening, evil, and despised figures in a variety of texts and explore what these figures can tell us about our own fears and values or, for more historical texts, the fears and values of the cultures that produced them. We will read novels and short stories both historic and recent as well as more varied texts, including at least two films, the horror classics Poltergeist and The Shining—plus television shows, comics, graphic novels, and even a song. Course Requirements: No data submitted Intended Audience: No data submitted Class Format: No data submitted

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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)



ISBN: 1560978007	Big baby, Author: [by] Charles Burns., Publisher: Fantagraphics Books 2nd Fantag 2007
Required

ISBN: 9780060976255	Understanding comics [the invisible art], Author: [writing and art: Scott McCloud], Publisher: Harper Collins 1. Harper 2006
Required

ISBN: 9780199536221	Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales, Author: Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited with an introduction and notes by Roger Luckhurst., Publisher: Oxford University Press 2008
Required

ISBN: 9780141441351	The turn of the screw, Author: Henry James ; edited and with an introduction and notes by David Bromwich., Publisher: Penguin Books
Required

ISBN: 1400033411	Beloved, Author: by Toni Morrison., Publisher: Knopf 1st Vintag 1987
Required