Introduction
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Course Overview
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Education is About Transformation (3:35)
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Let Murakami Interpret Murakami (3:47)
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Appreciate the Power of Story (2:07)
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Search for "the Dignity of the Individual Soul" (3:01)
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Ask, "What Does the Text Say?" (2:33)
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Remember: I Am a Fan Not a Critic (1:14)
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1:44)
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A Haruki Murakami Reading Guide
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Introduction Workbook
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Introductions
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Further Reading & Resources
Beginning the Novel - What is Literary & Critical Theory?
Down the Rabbit Hole - A Matrix for Understanding the Novel
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Foreshadowing (1:26)
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Deep Rivers Run Quiet (2:24)
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Niagara Falls & Houdini (1:48)
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Danny Boy (1:24)
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Split Watermelon (1:27)
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Tom Swift (2:00)
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Melon Patch (2:05)
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Marcel Proust (2:41)
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Escher Print (1:19)
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Sensory Inventory (1:52)
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
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Week 3 Workbook
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Discussion & Analysis - Chapters 5-8
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Further Reading & Resources
Breaking Down Binaries, Systems, & Language - Ferdinand de Saussure's Course on General Linguistics
Unpacking the Unconscious - Signmund Freud's The Unconscious
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Introduction to Unpacking the Unconscious (4:08)
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Coleridge's Primary Imagination, Secondary Imagination, and Fancy (5:33)
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Freud's Repression, Superego, Ego, and Id (4:14)
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The Wall (4:08)
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Psychoanalysis and Literature (4:08)
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Contemporary Definitions
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Teach Me Tonight
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Week 5 Workbook
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Discussion & Analysis - Chapters 13-16
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Further Reading & Resources
Identity & the Individual - Jacques Lacan's The Mirror Stage
Existential Psychiatry - R.D. Laing's The Divided Self & the Split Mind
Hyperreality - Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulacrum
Shedding the Shadow - Jung's Shadow Archetype
Deconstructing Death - Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Lost in Translation - The Limitations of English & Effects on Interpretation
Literary Afterlife - Analyzing the Novel's Influence on Culture
