We had one of these threads a few months back and I thought it

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English 345: Apocalypse and Revelation in Contemporary American Literature

This will be a survey course exploring the themes of apocalypse and revelation in post-WWII American literature and how they reflect the specific social and cultural anxieties of their time.

Reading List
~The Nine Billion Names of God [short story] - Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
~A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)
~Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (1962)
~Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
~Slouching Towards Bethlehem [essay] - Joan Didion (1967)
~The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
~The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)
~Lesser Apocalypses - Bayard Godsave (2012)
~Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (2014)

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Nobody?

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>>9378717
dude to do this i would have to think and try hard like i'ma do that i'm here for the shit posting man

>>9378717
i would but i am not expert on anything

>>9378462
I would take this course. Fantastic idea.

>>9378866

English 555: How to Score Some Sick Dubs

Really it's more just any area of writing you enjoy or have even a passing interest in. I'm by no means an expert on the one I posted, but I enjoy the genre.

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English 333: The Lovecraft Circle

This course is meant to study pulp fiction writers from the early to mid twentieth century, their relationships with each other, and the influence their works today.

Reading List:
~Re-Animator - H.P. Lovecraft
~The Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft
~The House on The Borderlands - William Hodgson
~The God in the Bowl - Robert E. Howard
~ Beyond the Black River - Robert E. Howard
~ The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - Clark A. Smith
~ Xeethra - Clark A. Smith
~ Psycho - Robert Bloch
~ August Delerith -

There are no prerequisites for this course.


This is actually a class I'm setting up for after I graduate and start teaching at a higschool. Haven't read any Delerith or enough Smith yet so those will change in the future. Order will also change so we read Howard last and finish up the semester by watching "Conan the Barbarian."

>>9379677

How would Conan the Barbarian tie into a class on Lovecraft? I've never seen it but are there similar themes or something?

>>9378717
I would but I dropped out of school in the first semster

Bump because I like the idea of this thread bu have nothing to contribute

>>9378462

Just realized Arthur C Clarke is British, not American. God damn it.

>>9379995
Lovecraft and Howard gave each other's creations shout outs in their respective works, and nerds have been masturbating about it ever since.

>>9379995
It's a class is called/ about the Lovecraft circle, all the pulp authors who were in communication with each other during the 20's and 30's who were connected via Lovecraft. Howard and Lovecraft were two of the big three, and also have had a large impact on pulp culture today.