Literature and Cinema of Gothic Modernity from late-Victorian London to the Postwar Era - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2018/19
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	01.10.2018 - 10.11.2018 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Mi	16:00 bis 18:00	wöchentlich	17.10.2018 bis 06.02.2019	1.09.1.15	Dr. Wiseman	26.12.2018: 2. Weihnachtstag 02.01.2019: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	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 decades immediately following the Second World War, this course will examine the development of Gothic, horror, 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). In the postwar era, the development of the figure of the zombie—already evident in Jacques Tourneur’s 1943 film I Walked with a Zombie, but developed in George Romero’s genre-defining Night of the Living Dead (1968) lead us towards the development of the modern horror film, as do two prototypical slasher films of 1960: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Alongside these works, we will examine key theoretical questions: what exactly are Gothic, horror, 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, and Julia Briggs.

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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 decades immediately following the Second World War, this course will examine the development of Gothic, horror, 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). In the postwar era, the development of the figure of the zombie—already evident in Jacques Tourneur’s 1943 film I Walked with a Zombie, but developed in George Romero’s genre-defining Night of the Living Dead (1968) lead us towards the development of the modern horror film, as do two prototypical slasher films of 1960: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Alongside these works, we will examine key theoretical questions: what exactly are Gothic, horror, 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, and Julia Briggs.

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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2018/19 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024