Text: “The Cooked Cat”
Author: Roberto Arlt
Date: 1926
Public domain version: Trans. Jon Beasley-Murray
Text: Selected Stories
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Date: 1930s-1970s
Edition used: Penguin
Text: “The Daisy Dolls” (“Las hortensias”)
Author: Felisberto Hernández
Date: 1949
Edition used: Marsilio
Faculty: Jon Beasley-Murray
Lecture date: March 4, 2013
Theme: Monster in the Mirror
Media: mediasite video (video plus slides)
Media: YouTube (video only)
Media: powerpoint (.pptx)
Media: powerpoint (.pdf)
Podcast: Frankenstein and “The Daisy Dolls”
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