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Ghost Stories
A First-Year Tutorial offered fall 2020, taught by Shuchi Kapila, professor of English
In this course, we will study ghosts and literary ghost stories. Do such fantasies provide an escape from an oppressive reality into a wish-fulfilling world or do they present an exaggerated or distorted version of the “real” world? What are literary ghosts and monsters? Are they particular to the historical moment in which they appear?
Texts for the course will include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
