ENG 2004 Exploring Fantasy Worlds
Fantasy fiction offers not only the pleasure of escape, but also new perspectives that help us make sense of complicated worlds, internal and external. Sharing the heroes adventures enables us to discover how we could, should, and would act in situations that threaten our values, our lives, and our communities. Through the works of Tolkien, Rowling, Le Guin, and others, we will examine the power of word magic to create complex and compelling worlds that challenge our imagination, thought, self-knowledge, and compassion. NOTE: This counts as a genre course.