On these pages, you will find lectures that go along with the readings. Please read them carefully; they should help focus your reading and give you some ideas for your writing and discussion; they may also raise some questions you might want to post to the message board.

Use the links below to get to the lecture you want. You can also reach individual lectures from the class schedule page.

Lecture 1: Introduction & The Age of Reason (i)

Lecture 2: The Age of Reason (ii)

Lecture 3: Romanticism (i)

Lecture 4: Romanticism (ii)

Lecture 5: Romanticism (iii)

Lecture 6: Realism

Lecture 7: Naturalism

Lecture 8: The Symbolists (?)

Lecture 9: Modernism

Lecture 10: Life as an Insect in the Modern World (i)

Lecture 11: Modern Poetry

Lecture 12: The New Wave

Lecture 13: Magical Labyrinths & Magical Realism

Lecture 14: Philip K. Dick's Eye