1) Introduction to the course and to the historical context of the considered literature; details about course organization.

2) Introduction to the category of the Unheimlich and its link to the Fantastic genre

Lecture: S. Freud, The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche)

E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman (Der Sandmann)

3) Definition of the Fantastic genre

Lecture: Todorov, The Fantastic

E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Deserted House (Das öde Haus)

4) Pieces of art and ancient worlds in Fantastic tendencies of the Spätromantik

Lecture: J. v. Eichendorf, The Marble Statue (Das Marmorbild)

5) Introduction to German Fantastic Literature and its links to Fin de Siècle Positivism

Lecture: G. Meyrink: The Automobile (Das Automobil)

K. H. Strobl, The Triumph of Mechanics (Der Triumph der Mechanik)

6) Fantastic motifs and aesthetic of the Femme Fatale

H. H. Ewers, The Spider (Die Spinne)

E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Story of the Lost Reflection (Die Geschichte vom verlorenen Spiegelbilde)

7) The Doppelgänger

H. H. Ewers: The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag) (Film 1913)

O. Wilde, The picture of Dorian Grey

8) Distortion of time and space in fantastic literature

K.H. Strobl: The Wicked Nun (Die arge Nonne)

E.A. Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

9) From the manor to the metropolitan landscape

Lecture: Georg Simmel: The Metropolis and Mental Life (Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben)

P. Leppin, Severin‘s Journey into the Dark (Severins Gang in die Finsternis)

10) Fantastic, utopias and heterotopias

Lecture: Foucault, Michael, The Other Spaces: Utopia and Heterotopia

A. Kubin, The Other Side (Die andere Seite) (chapters 1/2/3)

11) Fantastic and Prague

G. Meyrink, The Golem (Der Golem)

Illustrations: Richard Teschner, Alfred Kubin, Hugo Steiner-Prag

12) Elements of fantastic literature in Franz Kafka’s work…?

Lecture: F. Kafka, A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt); The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung)