Seminar: Sublime Terrors: Themes and Forms in Classical Gothic Fiction - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

Seminar: Sublime Terrors: Themes and Forms in Classical Gothic Fiction - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Sublime Terrors: Themes and Forms in Classical Gothic Fiction - Vertiefungsmodul
Veranstaltungsnummer ANG.05293.02
Semester SoSe 2025
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 19
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Donnerstag, 03.04.2025 16:00 - 18:00
Leistungsnachweis Written Essay Exam (120 mins)
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch
Studiengänge (für) Gym, Sek Englisch (2007+ 2012 + 2015)
LA Förder (Sek) Englisch (2012 + 2015)
MA Eng. Spr. u Lit. 45/75 LP (2015)
MA Angloam. Lit., Spr. u Kult. 120 LP (2015)
SWS 2

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Donnerstag: 16:00 - 18:00, wöchentlich

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

The seminar will explore classical works of British fiction that have defined Gothic themes and forms in the long eighteenth century. The Gothic famously wants to ‘curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart’ (Mary Shelley), and tells of horrors as well as sublime terrors, the ‘strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling’ (Edmund Burke). In addition to Walpole’s and Shelley’s classic novels, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Frankenstein (1818), we will read and discuss excerpts of selected Gothic poetry and prose of the period in order to obtain in-depth knowledge and understanding of key character and story conventions, aesthetics, and themes and motifs of the Gothic. These considerations will be complemented by selected aspects of eighteenth-century thinking and culture.

The primary texts given below must be purchased in advance of the teaching term and in exactly the formats and editions given below. There will be short assignments during the semester, and an oral discussion of written work. The module examination (“Prüfungsleistung”) will be a written essay exam (120 mins). Further details will be introduced in the first session.

Please note that prior registration for the course via StudIP is mandatory.

Primary texts:
Students are required to purchase EXACTLY the editions given below, so that we can all work with the same text, paratextual apparatus, and pagination. Please note that it is NOT possible to attend the course without these editions.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. Norton Critical Second Edition. London: Penguin, 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-92793-1. Print.

Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Gamer. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, [2001] 2002. ISBN 978-0-140-43767-6. Print.

Additional primary texts and selected secondary texts will be made available in class and/ or in StudIP over the course of the teaching period.

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