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Writing Madness in Twentieth-Century British and German Cultures- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Übung
2 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 01.02.2018 (08:00 Uhr) bis 13.04.2018 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 01.06.2018 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.06.2018 (23:59 Uhr)
Zeit und Ort: jede 2. Woche Di 16:15 - 17:45, U5/02.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation
A successfully completed module examination in a 'Basismodul' in British & American Cultural Studies.
This course is intended particularly for students in English and German studies. A course description in German can be found on the UnivIS pages of the Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft. We shall discuss the English-language works in English, and the German-language works in German.
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Theorien und Methoden (1 ECTS)
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basis- und Aufbaumodul (2 ECTS)
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul ohne Bachelorarbeit in Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Bachelor/Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Basismodul/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Realschule: Zusatzmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Gymnasium: Freier Bereich, Wahlpflichtmodul Britische Kultur
(2 ECTS)
M. Ed.: Zusatzmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik I (3 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik I (4 ECTS)
M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik (3 ECTS)
M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik (3 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students (2 or 4 ECTS)
An-/Abmeldung/Registration/de-registration
über FlexNow/on FlexNow
Lehrformen/Taught
Englisch und Deutsch/in English and German
Prüfungsformen/Examined by
Please inform the course teacher in good time (no later than 4 weeks after the start of the semester) if you wish to be awarded a grade for this seminar. The grade will be determined by a test, a presentation, or a term paper. This depends on the module taken and/or the ECTS points to be awarded. If they wish this course to count towards their “Consolidation Module I Master-Studiengang”, students must pass an oral examination at the end of the semester.
- Inhalt
- Course Description:
European cultures have always marginalized their strangest members in a bid to reinforce norms and identities. But by the early twentieth century, the asylum gates were rattling in unsettling new ways. The emergence of modern psychiatry in the 1870s had challenged old models of classification; both evolutionary theories and the nascent ‘science’ of psychoanalysis were questioning our innate morality and rationality; and down in the street, rapid urbanization seemed to be intensifying symptoms of such ‘modern’ disorders as schizophrenia and neurasthenia.
We’ll select from a range of representations of madness and mental illness in German and English literary cultures in the twentieth century. We begin with a theoretical groundwork, combining carefully selected readings from Foucault’s History of Madness (1961) with a sample of Freud’s psychoanalytic writings (either Bruchstücke einer Hysterie-Analyse (1906) or Jenseits des Lustprinzips (1920). Starting with the topic ‘Unruly minds, wayward bodies’, we shall discuss Alfred Döblin’s ‘case study’ short stories, ‘Die Ermordung einer Butterblume’ and ‘Die Tänzerin und der Leib’ (1913) in comparison with D. H. Lawrence’s tale of military pathologies, ‘The Prussian General’ (1914). Gottfried Benn’s cycle of short stories Gehirne (1915), in turn, will present us with an unsettlingly lyrical account of mental collapse in the face of the modern city. If there is time and interest, we shall then consider how insanity infects an entire society in the landmark silent film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920).
As we move forward into late modernism, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1952) sees the modern condition itself suffused with a mad absurdity. We then turn to the pathologies of gender politics in Doris Lessing’s ‘To Room 19’ (1963): a pitch-dark narrative trapped beneath the maddening weight of patriarchy, which we’ll read in conjunction with the short story that inspired it, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892). The topic (and course) may conclude with the postcolonial feminist prequel to Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). Could madness ever be defined and confined — or did the twentieth century see it become more pervasive and elusive than ever?
Primärliteratur/Primary Texts:
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot (London: Faber & Faber, 2006).
Benn, Gottfried, Gehirne, ed. by Jürgen Fackert (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1986).
Lawrence, D. H., The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, new edn, ed. by John Worthen (London: Penguin, 1995).
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea, new edn (London: Penguin, 2000).
The short stories by Alfred Döblin, Doris Lessing and Charlotte Perkins Gilman will be made available on the VC, along with the extracts from Foucault and Freud. Please try to acquire as many of the other texts as possible, in the stated editions. You should ensure that you read as much as possible before the start of the semester. The more you read, the more you'll get out of our discussions!
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. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Sekundärliteratur/Secondary texts:
Boulter, Jonathan, Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2008).
Hillebrand, Bruno, Gottfried Benn: Gehirne: Interpretationen (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2009).
Porter, Roy (ed.), The Faber Book of Madness (London: Faber & Faber, 1993).
Porter, Roy, Madness: A Brief History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Further reading suggestions will be distributed at the beginning of the course.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 4
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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