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Humanities and Social Science
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Module Offerings
6116ENGL-SEP-MTP
Aims
1.To critically examine the enduring popularity of the genre of Gothic fiction as it has developed over two centuries.
2.To explore the cultural, historical and intellectual contexts that shape the moment of its production
3.To critique the genre from a variety of theoretical perspectives in order to build on the degree’s foundations in the history of print cultures, critical theory and intertextuality
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically review the development of Gothic fiction over two centuries
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Critically evaluate the Gothic genre, integrating new concepts from literary theory, print culture and theories of intertextuality
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Accept complete accountability for planning and delivering an in-class student led presentation
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Gothic theory; psychoanalytic, queer, historicist and postcolonial readings of the genre; the gothic and sexuality; the gothic and science; vampires and the spectral; gothic and nationality. Authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, Susan Hill and Poppie Z Brite.
Module Overview:
This module will examine the genre of Gothic fiction as it has developed over two centuries to explore the cultural, historical and intellectual contexts that shape the moment of its production.
This module will examine the genre of Gothic fiction as it has developed over two centuries to explore the cultural, historical and intellectual contexts that shape the moment of its production.
Additional Information:This module seeks to understand why and how the Gothic genre has been continuously remodelled by successive generations of writers who all lay claim to different kinds of audiences (highbrow, the popular and teenage). Moreover, the module explores how the Gothic appears to offer not only a highly sensationalized, if displaced, engagement with the socio-historical contexts of the day but also dramatizes the way that the historical past continues to shape the present. And in its exploration of the genre’s deployment of supernatural figures such as the vampire, this module will examine the ways in which the Gothic looks to such imag8ined entities not only to dramatize societal fears about taboo subjects such as incest and rape but also allows for an encoded articulation, to varying degrees, of desires that transgress the normative.
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