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Black dogs: Figurations of Mental Illness in Modern English Literature and Culture [Import]- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)
Zeit und Ort: Mo 11:30 - 13:00, LU19/00.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation
I. Literaturwissenschaft:
B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
II. Kulturwissenschaft:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul
Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability
I. Literaturwissenschaft:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft
II. Kulturwissenschaft:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)
The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.
- Inhalt
- ‘[T]o define true madness, / What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad?’ As Polonius, the would-be sage of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1609) recognized, the true nature of mental illness is one of human society’s least fathomable riddles. By the early twentieth century, the asylum gates were rattling in strange new ways, even as the mystery remained essentially as intractable as ever. The development of modern psychiatry in the 1870s had challenged old models of disease classification; the fin-de-siècle emergence of psychoanalysis was drawing into question our innate morality and rationality; and a relentless process of urbanization seemed to be intensifying symptoms of such ‘modern’ disorders as schizophrenia and neurasthenia.
We start with a theoretical introduction to mental illness in modern literature on the basis of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness (1961). Our literary explorations will begin with a selection of Stevie Smith’s poems of mental illness. Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel, Mrs Dalloway (1925) was not only one of the first literary texts to sound out the reverberations of shellshock in the years following the Great War, but also a searing critique of contemporary social attitudes towards mental illness. Samuel Beckett’s stage masterpiece, Waiting for Godot (1952), in turn, is an absurdist reflection of the madness of modernity itself in the wake of World War II. We then move into the 1960s, which saw a proliferation of literary treatments of mental illness. After discussing Doris Lessing’s devastating portrayal of female depression in her story ‘To Room 19’ (1963), we will read Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea of 1966: a subversive twist on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which probes the problematic relationship between colonialism, racial politics, and the exploitation of ‘madness’ as a clinical and social label. Finally, we close with a selection from A. S. Byatt’s 1987 collection, Sugar and Other Stories, including ‘The July Ghost’, a poignant reflection on the delicate links between mourning, loss, and mental illness.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- I. Primärliteratur:
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (London: Faber & Faber, 2006).
A. S. Byatt, Sugar & Other Stories (London: Vintage, 1996).
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, new edn (London: Penguin, 2000).
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. with an Introduction and Notes by David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008).
N.B.: Smith’s poems, Lessing’s short story, and extracts from Foucault’s History of Madness, will be made available on the Virtual Campus in the first week of the semester.
II. Sekundärliteratur:
A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.
Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Black dogs: Figurations of Mental Illness in Modern English Literature and Culture
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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