Analyze
Understanding literature is about more than summary. It requires us to read between the lines, draw conclusions, and offer interpretations based on our own insight. The conversations here will introduce you to different ways of breaking open a text.
Why does the familiar sometimes feel so deeply unsettling? From Narnia to AI, we explore Freud’s concept of the unheimlich. This session provides a practical "toolbox" for spotting the doubles, shadows, and repressed desires that haunt the edges of Gothic and psychological literature.
"Conventions" are the features that distinguish one type of literature from another. So what makes for a good detective story? This video introduces the earliest writers of detective fiction, as well as the characteristics of the genre.