Gothic and Supernatural Modernity - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2016
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	01.04.2016 - 10.05.2016 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Mi	14:00 bis 16:00	wöchentlich	13.04.2016 bis 20.07.2016	1.19.1.16	Dr. Wiseman		40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. Taking ‘modernity’ as the period from the late-Victorian era to the mid-20th century, this course will examine the development of gothic and supernatural themes and forms in novels, short stories and films, particularly (but not exclusively) in Britain. We will begin by considering the revival of gothic themes in late-Victorian literature, in texts such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan (1890) will be studied in the context of the fin-de-siècle, decadent literature and ‘weird fiction’ and the ‘golden age’ of the ghost story is represented by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892) Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898), and stories by M.R. James, Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood. Cinematic adaptations of several of these texts will be considered, and particular focus will be given to two early horror films produced in the Weimar Republic: Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr Calgari (1920) and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922). Later texts considered on the course will include short stories by Shirley Jackson and Elizabeth Bowen, before we conclude with a discussion of two 1960 films that introduce themes and techniques that would prove central to the development of horror cinema: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Alongside these literary texts and films, we will examine key theoretical questions: what exactly are the gothic and the supernatural? How (and why) have these modes developed and changed in the first half of the twentieth century? What kind of relationships exist between these modes and the political, historical and cultural contexts of modernity? Such questions will be approached via secondary material by authors including Freud, S.L. Varnado, H.P. Lovecraft, Julia Briggs, Elizabeth Barrette and Thomas Cousine
Leistungsnachweis	According to various study programmes.

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

Taking ‘modernity’ as the period from the late-Victorian era to the mid-20th century, this course will examine the development of gothic and supernatural themes and forms in novels, short stories and films, particularly (but not exclusively) in Britain. We will begin by considering the revival of gothic themes in late-Victorian literature, in texts such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan (1890) will be studied in the context of the fin-de-siècle, decadent literature and ‘weird fiction’ and the ‘golden age’ of the ghost story is represented by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892) Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898), and stories by M.R. James, Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood. Cinematic adaptations of several of these texts will be considered, and particular focus will be given to two early horror films produced in the Weimar Republic: Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr Calgari (1920) and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922). Later texts considered on the course will include short stories by Shirley Jackson and Elizabeth Bowen, before we conclude with a discussion of two 1960 films that introduce themes and techniques that would prove central to the development of horror cinema: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Alongside these literary texts and films, we will examine key theoretical questions: what exactly are the gothic and the supernatural? How (and why) have these modes developed and changed in the first half of the twentieth century? What kind of relationships exist between these modes and the political, historical and cultural contexts of modernity? Such questions will be approached via secondary material by authors including Freud, S.L. Varnado, H.P. Lovecraft, Julia Briggs, Elizabeth Barrette and Thomas Cousine

Leistungsnachweis

According to various study programmes.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2016 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024