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Das Unheimliche in der Amerikanischen Literatur


WS 2000/2001    HS Thursday 18.00 - 20.00    DOR 24, 207

Syllabus


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Syllabus

26. 10.

Einführung, Referatverteilung und Diskussion

02. 11.

Gothic Marriages

Männliche Perspektive I:

Lektüre Freud, "Das Unheimliche" - Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"

09. 11.

Männliche Perspektive II

Lektüre Tzvetan Todorov, Das Phantastische - Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Northon)

Referat Terry Castle, "Phantamagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Revery", Ken Gelder (Hg.) The Horror Reader NY: Routlege: 2000, 29-46

16.11.

Männliche Perspektive III

 

Lektüre Egar Allen Poe, "Ligeia" - Elisabeth Bronfen, "Poes Ligeia" 446-485

Referat Elisabeth Bronfen, Over her Dead Body. Manchester U-Press, 1992, Deutsche Ausgabe Nur über ihre Leiche München:Kunstmann

23.11.

Weibliche Perspektive I

 

Screening Alfred Hitchock Rebecca

 

Lectüre Holland/Shermann "Gothic Possibilities"

 

Referat Hitchkock und Horror, Zizek / Tania Modleski,

30.11.

Weibliche Perspektive II

Lektüre Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Northon)

Alice Walker "Really Crime Doesnt’t Pay" aus Love in Trouble, 10-23

Referat I Michelle A Massé, "Things that Bo bump at Night, Husbands Horrors, and Repetition"

Referat II Gilman in feministischer Kritik - Walker in African American Kritik

07.12.

Weibliche Perspektive III

 

Lektüre Gloria Naylor Linden Hills (Auszüge)

 

Referat 1 Feminist Reading Margaret Homans "The Woman in the Cave: Recent Feminist Fiction and the Classical Underworld"

 

Referat II Race Theory Reading Antwort von Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Significant Others"

14. 12.

The Haunted House of America

 

Black Houses - Heritage of Slavery I

 

Lektüre Toni Morrison, Beloved (Ganz lesen)

 

Referat I Randi Gunzenhäuser, Beloved- Kapitel in "Horror at Home"

 

Referat II Beloved in der Kritik. Vergleich Bloom Reader mit Appiah/Gates

22. 12.

Black and White Houses - Heritage of Slavery II -

Lektüre Toni Morroson Beloved - Abrose Bierce, "An Occurence at Owl Greek Bridge", "Three and One are One"

Screening Jonathan Demme Beloved

 

Referat I Sabine Bröck, "White Amnesia - Black Memory"

 

Referat II Hintergrund und "Gothic" bei Ambrose Bierce

11. 01.

White Houses I -

Lektüre Shirley Ann Jackson "The Haunting of Hill House" - Auszüge

Screening Robert Wise, The Haunting

Referat I: Patricia White "Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter"

Referat II: Jackson and the American Gothic

18. 01.

Blood and Guts

The Abject

Lektüre Julia Kristeva "Powers of Horror" (Auszüge) - Winfried Menninghaus, Ekel Kristeva-Kapitel

Screening Brian de Palma Carrie

 

Referat Barbrara Creed, "Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection"

25.01.

Vortrag, Hanne Lorek, Abjekte Körper?

01.02

Bodies that Splatter

Screening Halloween oder Nightmare on Elm Street oder Friday 13th

Lektüre Carol Clover, "My Body himself"

Referat I Doreen Halberstam, "Skin Shows, Gothic Horrors and the Technologies of Monsters"

Referat II Tania Modleski, "The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory"

08.02.

Postmodern Monsters

 

Screening Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs

 

Referat Halberstam, "Skinflick, Posthuman Gender in Silence of the Lambs"

15.02.

Filmausschnitte von Candy Man

Abschlußdiskussion


Scheinvoraussetzungen: Vortrag und Hausarbeit

Zur Anschaffung wird empfohlen:

Toni Morrison Beloved


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