Schedule of Readings:
All stories and essays not included in the books ordered for the class are available on the Canvas site for the course, in the form of pdf files, or available online at the links given in the schedule below. Any title listed below that is not one of the seven books I ordered or that does not have a link attached can be found on the “Files” page of the Canvas site, where the pdf files are listed alphabetically under the author’s last name (for example, Poul Anderson’s story “The Martian Crown Jewels” is listed under the file name “Anderson.martiancrownjewels.pdf”).
Week 1. Defining pastiche
January 4: Introduction to the course
Week 2.
January 9: Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism and Consumer Culture” (especially pages 111-118) (pdf)
Lawrence Levine, “The Folklore of Industrial Society,” available online through the UW library site: https://www-jstor-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/stable/2165941
mostlysherlock, “Over a Cup of Coffee” (Sherlock coffee shop AU): available online at https://archiveofourown.org/works/26118418
H.P. Lowcraft (Lin Carter and Dave Foley), “The Slitherer from the Slime”
Suggested only: John Barth, “The Literature of Exhaustion” (pdf)
January 11: Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers, chapter 2, “How Texts Become Real” (especially pages 50-75) and chapter 5, “Scribbling in the Margins: Fan Readers/Fan Writers” (especially pages 152-177) (both on pdf)
Poul Anderson, “The Martian Crown Jewels” (pdf)
Ruthanna Emrys, “The Litany of Earth,” available online at
https://www.tor.com/2014/05/14/the-litany-of-earth-ruthanna-emrys/
Paula Volsky, “The Giant Rat of Sumatra” (pdf)
Suggested only: Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence” (pdf)
Week 3.
January 16: No class; MLK Day holiday
January 18: Francesca Coppa, “Introduction: Five Things That Fanfiction Is, and One Thing It Isn’t” (pdf)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, chapter 1, “Endings and Contradictions,” from Writing Beyond the Ending (pdf)
Naomi Novik, “Commonplaces” (pdf)
David Corbett, “The Murderer’s Paradox” (pdf)
Don Webb, “Casting Call” (pdf)
Suggested only: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading” (pdf)
Week 4. Sherlock Holmes
January 23: Catherine Belsey, “Sherlock Holmes”
From Arthur Conan Doyle, Complete Stories:
“A Study in Scarlet,” part 1
“The Sign of Four,” chapter 1
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
“A Case of Identity”
“The Man with the Twisted Lip”
“The Specked Band”
Suggested only: Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (pdf)
January 25: “The Yellow Face”
“The Final Problem”
“Charles Augustus Milverton”
“The Sussex Vampire” (on pdf)
Week 5. Holmes pastiche
January 30: From The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye:
August Derleth, “The Adventure of the Circular Room”
Vincent Starrett, “The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet”
Manly Wade Wellman, “But Our Hero Was Not Dead”
Chris Chan, “Of Course He Pushed Him” (pdf)
Suggested only: Anne Jamison, excerpts from Fic, “The Sherlock Holmes Material: A Study in Fanfic” (pdf)
February 1: No class
First papers due, Friday, February 3, by email to tfoster@uw.edu
Week 6.
February 6: Laurie King, “Mrs. Hudson’s Case” (pdf)
S.J. Rozan, “Men with the Twisted Lips” (pdf)
Phillip Purser-Hallard, “The Second Mask” (pdf)
Adrian Tchaikovsky, “The Final Conjuration” (pdf)
From The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye:
Poul Anderson, “In the Island of Uffa”
Jacques Barzun, “How Holmes Came to Play the Violin”
Arthur Chapman, “The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes”
February 8: John Sutherland, “The Struldbrugg Reaction”
Anthony Boucher, “The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf”
Ruth Berman, “Sherlock Holmes in Oz”
Darrell Schweitzer, “The Adventure of the Death-Fetch”
Stephen Gallagher, “The Adventure of the Seven Unnatural Women” (pdf)
Suggested only: Excerpt from Jamyang Norbu, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of the Great Detective in Tibet (pdf)
Suggested only: Roberta Rogov, “Our American Cousins”
Week 7. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos
February 13: H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”
H.P. Lovecraft, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
Suggested only: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Out of Time"
Suggested only: Eugene Thacker, “Preface: Clouds of Unknowing,” from Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1 (pdf)
February 15: H.P. Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in the Darkness”
H.P. Lovecraft, “The Colour Out of Space”
Suggested only: H.P. Lovecraft, “The Unnameable” (pdf)
Week 8: Lovecraft pastiche
February 20: No class; Presidents’ Day holiday
February 22: Neil Gaiman, “A Study in Emerald” (pdf)
Robert Bloch, “The Shambler from the Stars” (pdf)
Fritz Leiber, “To Arkham and the Stars” (pdf)
Dani Atkinson, “The Holes Between” (pdf)
Kevin J. Anderson, “20,000 Years Under the Sea” (pdf)
Suggested only: Don Webb, “Unsung Heroes” (on pdf)
Week 9.
February 27: Caitlin Kiernan, “The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings” (pdf)
Caitlin Kiernan, “Pickman’s Other Model” (pdf)
Melanie Tem, “Dahlias” (pdf)
Charles Stross, “A Colder War” (pdf)
Suggested only: H.P. Lovecraft, “Pickman’s Model” (pdf)
Suggested only: Kim Newman, “Big Fish” (pdf)
March 1: Veronica Schanoes, “Variations on Lovecraftian Themes” (pdf)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, “Legacy of Salt” (pdf)
Matt Ruff, “Dreams in the Which House” (pdf)
Suggested only: H.P. Lovecraft, “Dreams in the Witch House” (pdf)
Week 10.
March 6: Victor Lavalle, The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle, “Up From Slavery” (pdf)
March 8: Lavalle, The Ballad of Black Tom
Suggested only: Andre M. Carrington, “Dreaming in Color: Racial Revisions in Fan Fiction” (pdf)
Final papers due, Wednesday, March 15, by 5 p.m., by email to tfoster@uw.edu