Study Materials

Required Readings

(Outline numbers below are for ease of reference only; see Schedule for order of readings)

A. Required Books Available at UCSB Bookstore
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  1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus : The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics), Marilyn Butler (Editor) (Blackwell, 1996)
  2. Matthew Lewis, The Monk (Oxford World's Classics), Howard Anderson (editor) (Oxford UP, 1998)
  3. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897), (November 1992)

 

B. Required Course Reader Available at the Alternative Copy Shop: 6556 Pardall Road, Isla Vista: 968-1055.
(Contents in order of our reading texts)
 

  1. E.T.A Hoffman, "The Sandman"
  2. Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny" (1919)
  3. Philip K. Dick: Selected writings:Preface (Defining Science Fiction); "Book Review of the Cyubernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (1980); "Predictions" by Philip K. Dick (1981); "Notes on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (1968)
  4. Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"

 

Class Handouts:

5. Jonathan Goldberg, "Recalling Totalities: the Mirrored Stages of Arnold Schwarzenegger" in The Cyborg Handbook, ed Chris Hables Gray. New York and Londong: Routledge, 1995.

 

 

 

 

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