2670 - Magical Realism in the Horror Genre of Short Stories
Course Description
Instructor: George deMan
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery (1948) and more recently, Kristen Roupenian's collection: You Know You Want This exemplify imagined yet hauntingly disturbing scenarios of human depravity and insanity. Behind the facade lie religion, myth and all the monsters of the psyche that plague our lives.
Bio: George is a published poet, essayist, and sculptor - - and has taught all three as interactive courses. His career was in advertising, but his major accomplishments are in the area of cultural developments: A Founder of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Co-chairman of Emory's MARBL Board, Pres. of Out of Hand Theater, and Friends of Emory Forests. He lives near Emory where he has solo maintenance of several acres of pristine forest, travels widely, continues to publish, and is a Teaching Consultant for Emory. George has taught numerous science courses for OLLI, and studied ecology at Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.