LM in Lingue, Culture, Comunicazione A.A. 2014

LM in Lingue, Culture, Comunicazione
A.A. 2014-15
Letteratura Inglese LM (9 CFU)
Prof. Diego Saglia
TITOLO DEL CORSO:
“Estetiche della paura: forme, temi e concetti del gotico dal 1765 a oggi”
Programma d’Esame A
1) History and Concepts
. The Historical Development of Gothic (The Classical Period, Victorian and Late Victorian
Gothic, The Early Twentieth Century, The Late Twentieth Century)
. The Gothic Aesthetic: Excess; Transgression, Liminality; The Sublime; The Uncanny; The
Monstrous; The Abject; The Fantastic; Monstrosity; the Body; Terror and Horror.
Andrew Smith, Gothic Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2007)
Fred Botting, Gothic (Routledge, 1996)
2) Themes
Spaces, Places, Landscapes; Male and Female Gothic; Vampirism; Ghosts and Haunting;
Gothic on Stage; Imperial Gothic; Postmodern Gothic; Narrative Structures
Reading List
Compulsory:
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, ed. Michael Gamer (Penguin 2001)
John William Polidori, The Vampyre, in The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, ed.
Robert Morris (Oxford UP, 1997)
W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”
(http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/The_Monkey's_Paw.pdf)
Angela Carter, “The Loves of Lady Purple”
4 among the following (use only Penguin or Oxford World Classics editions; study the
critical introductions carefully):
Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya or the Moor
Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk
James Hogg, Confessions of a Justified Sinner + R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Th. De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2 among the following
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
*Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
A.S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories
*Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden
*Patrick McGrath, Spider
[*film adaptations available]
3) Seminar on contemporary Gothic theatre:
Texts: Liz Lochhead, Blood and Ice (1982); Dracula (1985)
Compulsory Essay: Benjamin Poore, “Liz Lochhead and the Gothic”, in The Edinburgh
Companion to Liz Lochhead, ed. Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2013,
pp. 86-104.
Further references
Mirella Billi, a c. di, Il gotico inglese: il romanzo del terrore 1764-1820 (Il Mulino, 1986)
Jerrold E. Hogle (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge University
Press, 2002).
David Punter (ed.), A Companion to the Gothic (Blackwell, 2000)
C. Spooner and E. McEvoy (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gothic (Routledge, 2007)
Recommended viewing:
Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922); Dracula (dir. Tod Browning, 1931); Vampyr (dir. Carl
Th. Dreyer, 1932); Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks, 1974); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (dir.
F. F. Coppola, 1992); Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1994); Mary
Reilly (dir. Stephen Frears, 1996); Le Moine/The Monk (dir. Dominik Moll, 2011).
LM in Lingue, Culture, Comunicazione
A.A. 2014-15
Letteratura Inglese LM (9 CFU)
Prof. Diego Saglia
TITOLO DEL CORSO:
“Estetiche della paura: forme, temi e concetti del gotico dal 1765 a oggi”
Programma d’Esame B
[Le opere sono disponibili in biblioteca]
1) Gothic coordinates
. The historical development of Gothic and the Gothic aesthetic from the mid-eighteenth
century to the twentieth century
. The Gothic Aesthetic: Excess; Transgression, Liminality; The Sublime; The Uncanny; The
Monstrous; The Abject; The Fantastic; Ghosts and Haunting; Monstrosity; the Body; Terror
and Horror.
Compulsory readings:
Andrew Smith, Gothic Literature (Edinburgh UP)
Fred Botting, Gothic (Routledge)
2) 4 critical essays among the following:
Fred Botting, ‘In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture’, in A Companion to the
Gothic, ed. David Punter (Blackwell, 2000)
William Hughes, ‘Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, in A
Companion to the Gothic, ed. David Punter (Blackwell, 2000)
Scott Brewster, ‘Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation’, in A Companion
to the Gothic, ed. David Punter (Blackwell, 2000)
C. Spooner and E. McEvoy, ‘Gothic Locations’, in The Routledge Companion to Gothic, ed.
C. Spooner and E. McEvoy (Routledge, 2007)
J. Procter and A. Smith, ‘Gothic and Empire’, in The Routledge Companion to Gothic, ed. C.
Spooner and E. McEvoy (Routledge, 2007)
David Punter, ‘The Uncanny’, in The Routledge Companion to Gothic, ed. C. Spooner and E.
McEvoy (Routledge, 2007)
Kelly Hurley, ‘Abject and Grotesque’, in The Routledge Companion to Gothic, ed. C.
Spooner and E. McEvoy (Routledge, 2007)
Alison Milbank, ‘Gothic Femininities’, in The Routledge Companion to Gothic, ed. C.
Spooner and E. McEvoy (Routledge, 2007)
Andrew Smith, ‘Hauntings’, in The Routledge Companion to Gothic, ed. C. Spooner and E.
McEvoy (Routledge, 2007)
3) Literary Texts
Compulsory:
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, ed. Michael Gamer (Penguin 2001)
John William Polidori, The Vampyre, in The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, ed.
Robert Morris (Oxford University Press, 1997)
R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (edizione Penguin o Oxford
UP)
W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”
(http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/The_Monkey's_Paw.pdf)
4 among the following (use only Penguin or Oxford World Classics editions; study the
critical introductions carefully):
Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya or the Moor
Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk
James Hogg, Confessions of a Justified Sinner + R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Th. De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
3 among the following
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
*Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
A.S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories
*Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden
*Patrick McGrath, Spider
[*film adaptations available]
4) Further recommended bibliographic references:
Mirella Billi (a cura di), Il gotico inglese: il romanzo del terrore 1764-1830 (Il Mulino, 1986)
Jerrold E. Hogle (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge University
Press, 2002)
Glennis Byron and dale Townshend (eds), The Gothic World (Routledge, 2013)
5) Recommended viewing:
Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922); Dracula (dir. Tod Browning, 1931); Vampyr (dir. Carl
Th. Dreyer, 1932); Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks, 1974); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (dir.
F. F. Coppola, 1992); Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1994); Mary
Reilly (dir. Stephen Frears, 1996); Le Moine/The Monk (dir. Dominik Moll, 2011).