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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >>
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Gothic Fiction- Dozent/in
- Dr. Simone Broders
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Di 12:15 - 13:45, KH 2.012
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das PS Literature gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Zwischenmodul II Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul)
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature)
Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen (neu): Zwischenmodul L-UF Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul Literature)
- Inhalt
- Haunted castles surrounded by hostile nature, a “damsel in distress” prosecuted through labyrinthine dungeons by a ruthless villain, supernatural occurrences, conspiracies, madness, curses, creatures of the night – these are some of the stereotypical ingredients of a Gothic story.
Clive Bloom characterizes the Gothic as “one of the most influential artistic styles and artistic genres of the last four centuries […]; one which has readily adapted itself to almost every geography, whether urban or rural, and has found expressions tailored to every culture” (Bloom 2). The Gothic is both a genre and a mode of writing which appears in many different incarnations. By turning the familiar into something uncanny, threatening and potentially deadly, the literature of fear is famous blurring the lines between good and evil, self and other.
This seminar is going to identify the characteristics of Gothic writing and explore its transformations from Romantic origins over Victorian Gothic to contemporary texts. Among other themes, we will focus on aesthetic programmes and their impact on a variety of disciplines, the break of taboos, gender and sexuality, monstrosity and the human body, the problem of evil, as well as the commercialization of the Gothic in popular culture.
Students wishing to attend this course should be prepared to give a short course presentation. It is highly recommended to read as many of the texts as possible before the beginning of the summer semester.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Required texts (to be purchased):
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto (1764) – Oxford World’s Classics Edition
Radcliffe, Ann. The Italian (1797) – Oxford World’s Classics Edition
Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya, or The Moor (1806) – Oxford World’s Classics Edition
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898) – Norton Critical Edition
Recommended reading (optional):
Bloom, Clive. Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to Present. New York and London: Continuum, 2010.
Broders, Simone. Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Paderborn: Fink/UTB, 2015.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Wríters of Research Papers. 7th edition. New York: MLA, 2009.
Additional short texts by John Polidori, Bram Stoker, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Angela Carter, Jamaica Kincaid, and Patrick McGrath will be made available via StudOn by the beginning of the summer semester. More information on this course will be provided on my website http://www.simone-broders.eu in early March.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Anglistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft
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