This module examines theories and literary representations of otherness. Devils, monsters, and beasts signal a split between conscious and unconscious, familiar and unfamiliar, same and other. They mark a zone where fantasy flourishes, a threat to established categories, an invitation to think again. Are these figures tokens of fracture within the human psyche? Do they represent what we wish to repudiate, repress, or project onto outsiders? Or do they signal the possibility of a real encounter, a dialogue that transcends our subjective awareness of the world? Can they grant new forms of knowledge? What are the myths or ideologies through which authors and readers, consciously and unconsciously, interpret otherness, and hence our place in the world?