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Ghost Stories
A First-Year Tutorial offered fall 2020, taught by Shuchi Kapila, professor of English
In this course, we will study ghosts and literary ghost stories. Do such fantasies provide an escape from an oppressive reality into a wish-fulfilling world or do they present an exaggerated or distorted version of the 鈥渞eal鈥 world? What are literary ghosts and monsters? Are they particular to the historical moment in which they appear?
Texts for the course will include Bram Stoker鈥檚 Dracula, Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved, Edgar Allan Poe鈥檚 鈥淭he Black Cat,鈥 and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
