Unit One The Intuitives
syllabus 

unit one
unit two
unit three 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Weeks 1& 2 

In the Demonic Garden of Delights: anticipations of the Fantastic-- art by Bosch and Breughel; the magical and the marvelous. Emergence of the Fantastic from the romantic agony.  Hoffmann's "The Sandman," art by Fuesli, Grandville; Friedrich 

Weeks 3 & 4 

The Uncanny: tales by Poe, readings in Freud and Todorov on the uncanny, on repression, on the genre of the Fantastic. 

Artists 

Bosch
Bruegel
Arcimboldo
Friedrich 
Fuseli
Grandville
Goya
Grünewald

Authors 

Hoffmann
Poe
Freud 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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