GOTHIC FICTION: THE LITERATURE OF EXCESS (CW5054)

Monsters, vampires, hauntings, demons; persecution, murder, rape, incarceration, torture – it is to the dark side of the imagination that this course is devoted. It seeks to open students to something of the history and genealogy of our fascination with excess, with the supernatural, with terror and horror, by tracing the development of what becomes a discernible genre from its inception through to its late bloom in the Victorian era.

Code:

CW5054

Name:

GOTHIC FICTION: THE LITERATURE OF EXCESS

Discipline:

Type:

Regular

Level:

Graduate

Credits:

Can be taken twice for credit?:

Pre-requisites:

College Level=Graduate OR College Level=New Student - Grad OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing

Co-requisites:

None

Learning Outcomes

Students will create a book-length body of work in a particular genre or between genres and be able to situate one’s own writing relative to one or more literary lineages.
Students will demonstrate an international understanding of the evolution of genre, including mastery of classic and contemporary texts, techniques, and possibilities in one genre, familiarity with contemporary works in another genre, and an understanding of how genre differs across languages and cultures through translation.
Students will show fluency in creating composite or “hybrid” forms by blending genre and/or media/visual art in the production of prose and poetry and/or by creating work that is informed by the specificity of one’s spatial environment, the city of Paris.

GOTHIC FICTION: THE LITERATURE OF EXCESS (CW5054)

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