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106-277/377 Gothic Fictions

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator: Peter Otto.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• be able to demonstrate a familiarity with the formal conventions and devices of Gothic fictions;
• have a general understanding of the social, cultural and political contexts in which this genre first appeared;
• be able to demonstrate an awareness of recent feminist and psychoanalytic accounts of the Gothic;
• be able to identify the formal and thematic differences between male and female Gothic;
• understand, in general terms, some of the ways in which Gothic fiction developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Content:

This subject is an introduction to the contexts, nature, form and literary children of Gothic fiction. Twentieth-century film versions of the Frankenstein and Vampire myths will be studied.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Austen J Northanger Abbey Penguin. Carter A Heroes and Villains Penguin. Lewis M The Monk OUP. Poe E A The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Penguin. Radcliffe A The Italian OUP. Shelley M Frankenstein Penguin. Stevenson R L The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stoker B Dracula OUP.
• Films: Coppola F F Bram Stoker's Dracula. Murnau F W Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauns. Herzog W Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. Whale J Frankenstein. Whale J Bride of Frankenstein.

1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-283 | Prev:106-273

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p101) : Next:106-283 | Prev:106-273

106-277/377 Gothic Fictions

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Peter Otto.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• be able to demonstrate a familiarity with the formal conventions and devices of Gothic fictions;
• have a general understanding of the social, cultural and political contexts in which this genre first appeared;
• be able to demonstrate an awareness of recent feminist and psychoanalytic accounts of the Gothic;
• be able to identify the formal and thematic differences between male and female Gothic; and
• understand, in general terms, some of the ways in which Gothic fiction developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Content:

This subject is an introduction to the contexts, nature, form and literary children of Gothic fiction. Twentieth-century film versions of the Frankenstein and Vampire myths will be studied.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Austen J Northanger Abbey Penguin
• Carter A Heroes and Villains Penguin
• Lewis M The Monk OUP
• Poe E A The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Penguin
• Radcliffe A The Italian OUP
• Shelley M Frankenstein Penguin
• Stevenson R L The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Stoker B Dracula OUP
• Films: Coppola F F Bram Stoker's Dracula. Murnau F W Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauns. Herzog W Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. Whale J Frankenstein. Whale J Bride of Frankenstein

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