Course materials for Fantasy After Tolkien
Here are the course materials for my Spring 2012 Modern and Contemporary Literature course, Fantasy after Tolkien.
The syllabus includes course policies, grading information, and CU boilerplate stuff on disabilities, etc.
The Daily Schedule lists due dates for readings, papers, and quizzes.
The Text List lists. . . err. . . texts.
I have also included here the prompts for the course’s six short writing assignments (of which the students will complete three of their choice). I have created all six assignments ahead of time to give the course some shape and to allow students to look ahead and think about which writing tasks most interest them.
Syllabus
Schedule
Text List
Short paper 1: Tolkien and Fairy Stories
Short paper 2: Fantasy and Genre
Short paper 3: Things and Power
Short paper 4: Horror and the Unknown
Short paper 5: Magic
Short paper 6: Realism
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