10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR
Section Information for Spring 2013
In “Haunted America” you will listen to the rage-filled screams of child ghosts and the moans of men and women who have been imprisoned, their pain echoing across time. You will walk through the blood-filled corridors of the Overlook Hotel, breathe in the toxic environs of Poe’s House of Usher, and dwell in stifling shacks and mind-destroying mansions. You will swim among water ghosts that wait, eyes wide and hair filled with weeds, to pull under the first living being they can reach and so be born anew. Moving back and forth across time and forms, from pre-1915 to contemporary US culture, and from fiction to films, you might lose your way. But you will map, analyze, discuss, tweet, blog, create, and imitate, in order to, in Poe’s words, “grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowd” upon you.
You stand at the threshold. Enter if you dare.
Credits: 3
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