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EXAM Horror, part 2
Forløbsbeskrivelse HORROR
Kernestof:
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart (1842) – short story (Gothic archetype: The psychopath)
“Fields of Vision”, vol. 1, s. E 96-101
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) – extract from novel (Gothic archetype: The scientist), i: “The Gothic Universe”, Marianne Mortensen og Rolf D. Erbst, Gyldendal, 2003, s. 26-32
Bram Stoker, Dracula, (1897) – extract from novel (chapters 2+3) (Gothic archetype: The supernatural creature --> The vampire and the demon), i: “The Gothic Universe”, Marianne Mortensen og Rolf D. Erbst, Gyldendal, 2003, s. 73-80
“Dracula” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) – film (focus on lust/sex, man versus woman, the beast in man, Gothic elements and different depictions of womanhood).
Angela Carter: “The Bloody Chamber” – extract from short story (Gothic archetype: The psychopath + finding characteristics of fairy tales – this story being loosely based on the French folk tale “Blue Beard”), i: “Unsex Me”, Mette B. Hansen og Anne Louise H. Christiansen, L&R, 2016, s. 129-144 (inkl. analyse af illustration i teksten)
Talking Heads: "Psycho Killer" (lyrics, 1977) – lyrics (read in connection with "The Tell-Tale Heart"). “Fields of Vision”, vol. 1, s. 103 --> kun brugt som perspektiv på "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Sekundærlitteratur:
- Background material on Victorian Age.
- Background on stories about vampires.
Introduction to Horror, i: "A Taste of Horror", Nete Schmidt, Systime, 1993, s. 9-14
Psychoanalytical criticism, i: "Along Literary Lines", Gyldendal, 2009, s. 112-114
The Victorian Age, i: "Along Literary Lines", Gyldendal, 2009, s. 153-155
7 types of obscurity, i: “The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction”, Nick Groom, Oxford University Press, 2012, s. 77-79
Video: Gothic motifs, British Library: Professor John Bowen, 2014 (8:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNohDegnaOQ
Article: Dracula: vampires, perversity and Victorian anxieties (Greg Buzwell, 2014):
https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/dracula
Article: Horror, sex and repression - the fear of what may lie beneath the surface – article --> student presentation, i: "Horror", Rasmus Drisdal og Johanne R. Hansen, Systime, 2017, s. 40
*Ordforrådsøvelser med Quizlet flashcards (horror and gothic literature) + evt. E.A. Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
*Associationsøvelser og snak om musikalske virkemidler ud fra horror filmmusik:
“Jaws” (1975), “Psycho” (1960) og “Halloween” (1978):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBIcT_VTCk
Forløbsbeskrivelse:
Forløb om Horror som genre med særligt fokus på Gothic elements. Vi har fokuseret på genrens klassikere fra det 19. århundrede, og forløbet har også tjent som generel indføring i the Victorian Age. Vi har brugt denne generelle baggrundsindføring som meningsfuld perspektivering af teksterne.
Vi har desuden benyttet os af de genremæssige ligheder og forskelle som ”The Gothic Universe” opregner (videnskabsmanden, vampyren og psykopaten), ligesom vi også har inddraget psychoanalytical criticism i læsningen af teksterne, hvor det var relevant. I læsningen af ”Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” har eleverne relateret teksten til Darwinism (The Descent of Man) samt den kristne skabelsesberetning og ”The Fall of Man”.
Litterære og/eller tematiske begrebsdannelser under dette tema:
Gothic, Enlightenment/knowledge, the quest for knowledge, subjectivity, individuality, transformation, rite of passage, split personality, double, duality, the uncanny, The Victorian Age and ”Victorian virtues” (e.g. thrift and chastity), intertextuality, male/female stereotypes and power dynamics, sexuality, characteristic elements in fairy tales.
Freudian concepts (used mostly as a tool for analysis of Dracula and Poe´s works): the superego, the id, the subconscious, repression, libido)
Omfang: 40 normalsider
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