Literature of the Fantastic

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This course examines a literary genre known as the conte fantastique (fantastic short story) that emerged in 19th- century France and whose legacy is still seen in today's literature, cinema, and art. Fantastic tales by well-known authors such as Balzac, Gautier, Maupassant, Merimee and German writer Hoffmann are analyzed from a theoretic perspective and for the underlying questions of identity, universal values and the unconscious that they contain. Taught in French.