Literature of Superheroes, Aliens and Gods

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Surveys narratives about the gods from primarily Mesopotamian and Biblical mythology alongside two other classes of otherworldly powers — science-fiction aliens and comic-book superheroes. Explores evil and theodicy, creation and judgment, super-being hiddenness, combat and chaoskampf, monsters and villains, divine sex, heavenly ascents and visions.