April 14
Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood
The following are my slides for teaching Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, two texts that I regularly teach in my World Literature course.
April 4
Fairy Tales
The following are slides introducing fairy tales, folklore, and my unit on Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White.
March 27
Broken Tablets
Gilgamesh has always been one of my favorite texts to teach. Few works of literature embody their themes so intimately and materially. With each ellipses, gap, and discontinuity in the text, we are reminded of the central brokenness of what it means to be mortal.
March 11
The Rashomon Effect
Here some more lecture slides from my Introduction to World Literature course. These cover Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s “Rashomon” and “In a Bamboo Grove,” setting the stories within the context of modernism and Samurai Japan.
March 7
Kafka’s Parables
The following are slides created for my lecture on Kafka’s parables “Before the Law” and “An Imperial Message.” The lecture introduces the problem of interpretation and meaning in literature through a focus on matters of form and medium.
March 4
The Art of Storytelling
My slides on The Arabian Nights, the art and seduction of storytelling, frame narratives, and other “entertainment” related to the demonic power of stories and seduction. The first English language edition of the stories was titled The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment.
August 25
Realism & Representation
Another set of slides I created for the first week of my course on “Realism & Recording.” Whereas the previous slides focused on matters of “recording,” these pivot around the age-old problem of representation.
August 21
Realism & Recording
Here are some slides I created to set the scene for class on “Realism & Recording.”