ENG 235 - Monsters, Modern and Postmodern

3 Credits

Students focus on how horror narratives reify, challenge, and critique cultural narratives revolving around monsters (supernatural, human, “real” and abstract) since the late 1950s. Through the reading and viewing of a variety of texts in fiction and film, students examine how the horror genre gives expression to (oftentimes contradictory) anxieties, fears, hopes, and beliefs animating contemporary culture.