Genre-Benders

A fun game for academics/teachers everywhere: Design-a-class.

My friend Crystal bought me House of Leaves as a present. It got me thinking about how fun a special topics course on genre would be. Here are some of my thoughts on required reading so far:

Horror
Genre: H.P. Lovecraft. "The Rats in the Walls."
Bender: Mark Z. Danielewski. House of Leaves.

Fairy Tale
Genre: Charles Perrault. "Little Red Riding Hood."
Bender: Angela Carter. "The Company of Wolves."

Western Film
Genre: High Noon.
Bender: first four episodes of Deadwood.

Romance/Chivalric
Genre: Chretien de Troyes. Erec and Enide.
Bender: Marie de France. "Guigemar."

Romance/Harlequinish
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Detective
Genre: anything Sherlock Holmes
Bender: Jorge Luis Borges. "Death and the Compass."

You're all astute readers, so you'll notice that I'm setting up some of these categories to put as much space between the representative of the genre and the bender as possible. I expect that one of the assignments would be to determine a spectrum on which these works were placed and fill in some other works that help establish said spectrum. For example, it's not like there aren't Westerns that exist in the space between High Noon and Deadwood (especially ones involving Clint Eastwood).

Any suggestions? Fun or serious?