Kommentar |
“A particular attitude towards the recapture of history; a particular kind of literary style; a version of self-conscious un-realism; a mode of revealing the unconscious; connections with the primitive, the barbaric, the tabooed” – these meanings, states David Punter in The Literature of Terror, have “attached themselves in one way or another to the idea of Gothic fiction.” In this seminar we will explore the complexity of Gothic fiction by reading a selection of texts from different literary periods, including Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Working closely with these texts, we will not only study Gothic conventions, theoretical approaches and key concepts but also consider the Gothic in connection with other literary modes.
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Literatur |
Please purchase a copy of the following books. Additional texts will be provided. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (ISBN 9780198704447) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 text, ISBN 9780198840824) Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Third Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 9780393420371) |