ST202 Love, Sex, Bodies and the Nonhuman
What the run does to love
From burial to rite: the arc as an argument about loving what is not like you.
Reading for this lesson
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Recommended Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition Matthew J. A. Green (editor) one chapter on Swamp Thing
For the scholarly conversation.
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Recommended Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel Annalisa Di Liddo the chapter on Swamp Thing
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Optional Rabelais and His World Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by Helene Iswolsky the chapter on the grotesque body
Re-read with the love scene in mind: the open body, now in joy.
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Optional Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon S. Roudiez the opening chapter
The abject, now embraced.