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: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
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 level 2 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
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
