Faculty Course: Narrating Madness in Literature and Culture, 7.5 Credits
Swedish name: Profilkurs: Narrating Madness in Literature and Culture
This syllabus is valid: 2016-01-18
and until further notice
Course code: 1PK000
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
No main field: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2016-01-14
Required Knowledge
Knowledge of English equivalent of English 6/English Course B from Swedish upper secondary school. Univ: One of these alternatives: 1) Bachelor of Arts (180 ECTS) or 2) At least 90 ECTS including a degree project or other independent scientific work of at least 7,5 ECTS, or equivalent knowledge.
Literature
Valid from:
2016 week 3
Burton Robert Tha Anatomy of Melancholy (Selections) (Available online through Project Gutenburg: https://www.gutenberg.org/) : Mandatory
Clare John Poems (Selections will be provided through Moodle) . : Mandatory
Freud Sigmund Dora: an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (PDF will be provided through class Moodle, also in The Freud Reader, ed. Peter Gay) . : Mandatory
Kempe Margery The Book of Margery Kempe (Selections), trans. Barry Windeatt (Available online through Proquest Literature Online: http://literature.proquest.dom/) . : Mandatory
Foucault Michel Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason London : Routledge : 2001 : xiv, 282 s. : ISBN: 0-415-25385-3 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
Gilman Charlotte Perkins "The Yellow Wallpaper." (this short story is found in numerous anthologies but you can also find online through the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia) . : Mandatory
Kristeva Julia "Mourning the Los Mother and the Lost Self." from Black Sun (Provided through Moodle, also found in The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, ed. Jennifer Radden) . : Mandatory
Owen Wilfred (Selections will be provided through Moodle) . : Mandatory
Plath Sylvia Bell Jar.(Selection provided through Moodle) . : Mandatory
Shakespeare William Hamlet (selections -available online through Folger Digital Texts: http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org) . : Mandatory
Sassoon Siegfried (Selections will be provided through Moodle) . : Mandatory
