YOU ARE THE HERO… in Fall 2020 (CL1099FB2)

How are heroes and villains explored in literary and popular culture? This course will see students explore, discuss and analyse a series of depictions of heroic and villainous behaviour drawn from novels, poems, and essays but also from comic books, TV series, journalism, pop music and computer games. We’ll also consider the different experiences, and the implicit politics, of reading, playing, immersing in, interacting and working with this material. Amongst other things, we’ll be reading and thinking deeply about Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1987).