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2012 Feb. 17 Imaginary Worlds: Form of Fantasy

SESSION 6: Fantasy in the Mainstream
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels. Many editions. First published in 1726.
Robert Browning. “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.” In Men and Women. London, 1855.
John Gardner. Grendel. New York, 1971.
José Saramago. Blindness. Trans. Giovanni Pontiero. New York, 1997.
Susanna Clarke. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. London, 2004.
Cormac McCarthy. The Road. New York, 2006.

A SAMPLING OF OTHER WORKS
Thomas More. Utopia. Many editions. First published in 1516.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Idylls of the King. Many editions. First published 1856-85.
Christina Rossetti. “Goblin Market.” Goblin Market and Other Poems. London, 1862.
Franz Kafka. Metamorphosis. Many editions. First published in 1915.
Virginia Woolf. Orlando. London, 1928.
George Orwell. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. London, 1945.
Jorge Luis Borges. Ficciones [1962]. Trans. Anthony Bonner. New York, 1962.
Italo Calvino. Cosmicomics. New York, 1965.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. New York, 1967.
Brian More. The Great Victorian Collection. Toronto, 1975.
Alberto Manguel, ed. Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature. Toronto, 1983.
Laura Esquivel. Like Water for Chocolate. Trans. C. & T. Christensen. New York, 1989.
David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas. London, 2004.

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