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- demonstrerer kendskab til emnet og de relevante tekster, teorier og problemstillinger.
- demonstrerer færdighed i litteratursøgning, selektion og disponering af et givet stofområde.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- giver en teoretisk reflekteret analyse af afgrænsede problemer.
- reflekterer over den anvendte teoris videnskabsteoretiske eller videnskabshistoriske egenart.
- forholder sig vurderende til den anvendte teori.
While monsters and sexuality are not unfamiliar bedfellows, the resulting merger still compels an understanding of how they are mutually and intricately interwoven. The common denominator - of dreadful dangerous things - is the dreadful difference that exceeds the intelligible, a rubric under which both the woman and the monster are catalogued. The course discusses their mutual affinity from inverse perspectives: how gendered dimensions frame the monster and, conversely, the role of monstrosity in the construction of woman's difference. In this course we will explore a selection of texts, both classic and contemporary, featuring female doubles, animated dolls, monstrous mothers, dispirited bodies, and disembodied spirits - sexual figures, not quite dead yet not quite alive, who systematically violate both intimate sexual and existential boundaries.
The concepts of both the monster and the woman not only evoke the notion of the Other; they also touch on the very core of what it means to be a self. To cross the line demarcating self from other, human from monstrous, man from woman, is to menace a stable sense of identity of which gender is also an essential specification. As beings who mix categories or defy categorization altogether, female monsters are aptly imbued with the crises of subjectivity.
As well as identifying what qualities define these women monsters, we will reverse these premises by asking against which yardstick these qualities are being measured, and in what ways these conceptions of monstrous women are shaped by cultural discourses. What does our understanding about the other reveal about our selves and our humanity?
A key question throughout the course will therefore be how the relationship between knotty otherness and fragile subjectivity relates to the horror and haunting of sexual difference. Themes addressed will include otherness, gender, the abject, the fantastic and the uncanny, which will be examined in short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe's "Morella" (1835), "Ligeia" (1838), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839); Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" (1843), "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844); George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" (1859), Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), Angela Carter's "The Loves of Lady Purple" (1974), and A.S. Byatt's "A Stone Woman" (2003), among others. Longer works include Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) and Neil Gaiman's children's book Coraline (2002).
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Susan Yi Sencindiver
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Engelsk
A compendium of required readings will be available from the University Bookshop - with the exception of Jane Eyre (recommended edition: Ed. Beth Newman. New York: Bedford Books/St. Martin's, 1996) and Coraline (2002) which students should acquire themselves. Optional readings will be posted on seminar conference. Please check the FC Course conference for a detailed syllabus and the reading assignments for the first week.
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
