Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
THE GROTESQUE
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course investigates the notion of the grotesque - as well as a number of related or adjacent categories such as the comic, the bizarre, the absurd, the baroque, the gothic, the monstrous, the disgusting, the weird and the ridiculous - examining a wide variety of texts by writers and artists as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Henri Bergson, Sherwood Anderson, Lewis Carroll, H.P. Lovecraft,, Mikhail Bakhtin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Angela Carter, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Lynch. Our discussions will include in-class presentations and will be leavened by video recordings and other supporting materials.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin)
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (Vintage)
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Happy Days (any edition)
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (Vintage)
+ a syllabus of critical texts, poems and short stories
Assessment methods and criteria
one final reserach paper