Unit Two Master Technicians - from Intuition to Self-Awareness
syllabus 

unit one
unit two
unit three 

 
Weeks 5&6


From logic: Poe: ("Purloined Letter", "The Black Cat")--> to cruelty: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: ("Vera," "The Sign," The Eleventh Hour Guest")--> to madness: Maupassant: ("The Horla," ) Art by Bresdin, Redon, Moreau. 

Weeks 7-9

A domestic Fantastic? " Henry James: Turn of the Screw; Kafka: The Metamorphosis; Borges on Kafka 

Artists

Bresdin
Redon

Moreau


Authors

Poe
Balzac

Gautier
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Maupassant

James
Kafka


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