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Unit 1 Section 1.1: Introduction: Reading Strategies and Methodologies
Section 1.2: Technological Innovation and the Shock of the New
 
Unit 2 Section 2.1: Futurism: Creation and Technology
Section 2.2: Futurism: Poetic Forms
 
Unit 3 Section 3.1: Counterpoint: Mary Shelley's Critique of Modern Technology
Section 3.2: Literary Criticism through Critiques of Shelley
 
Unit 4 Section 4.1: Reading Film
Section 4.2: German Expressionism and Lang's Metropolis
 
Unit 5 Section 5.1: Prose Poetry: Gertrude Stein's Word Portraits  
Unit 6 Section 6.1: More Formal Experiments: Concrete Poetry
Section 6.2: UBUWEB: Visual, Sound, and Concrete Poetry
 
Unit 7 Section 7.1: The Novelization of Poetry: Vikram Seth 
Essay 1 Submit Essay 1 to your tutor for grading and feedback. 30%
Unit 8 Section 8.1: African Women's Writing  
Unit 9 Section 9.1: Novel Recipes for Revolution: Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate
Section 9.2: Translating from Novel to Film
 
Unit 10 Section 10.1: Magical Realism: Borges's Short Stories  
Unit 11 Section 11.1: Serbian Magical-Realism: Pavic's Novel Dictionary  
Unit 12 Section 12.1: Hypertext: Shelley Jackson's Rewriting of the Monstrous Textual Body  
Essay 2 Submit Essay 2 to your tutor for grading and feedback. 50%
Final Exam Prepare for and write the Final Exam to complete the course. 20%