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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- 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.
"... all suns and all stars are gradually waning, and
mankind with all its institutions and creations
is persisting in the midst of a dying world."
Max Nordau, Degeneration (1895)
The Victorian fin de siècle - the ‘end of the century' - is a fascinating time of doom and gloom, of optimism and anxiety, and a kind of fermenting kettle for the ambivalence of modernity. This period saw explosive technological change, the rise of several ‘new' sciences (e.g., psychology, sexology, and psychic research), political reform, changing gender politics, and a volatile cocktail of belief in progress versus visions of degeneration and decay.
It is also a period rife with monsters: Dracula , Mr. Hyde, aliens from Mars, creepy ghosts, and so on. Even though supernatural monsters do not exist in the real world, they tell us a lot about the context that produces them: the psychological context, the kind of mind that conjures up monstrosities, and also the cultural context. In this course, we focus mainly on the sociocultural anxieties that metamorphosed into literary monsters in the English fin de siècle, but we will also examine the fuzzy (and sometimes furry) concept of the monster in general.
We will be reading such late-Victorian classics as Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Machen's "The Great God Pan" (1894), Wells' The Time Machine (1895), Stoker's Dracula (1897), and James' The Turn of the Screw (1898), as well as secondary materials - from Darwin to Freud - that address the themes and issues at stake in these stories. Since we open the course with Dracula , it is only fitting that we close it with a screening of Twilight (2008) to explore the vampire's transformation through the twentieth century, and the changing anxieties that the vampire sinks its teeth into. We will also read a recent novel, Scott Bakker's Neuropath (2008), which addresses a new range of anxieties and introduces a new monster for the new millennium.
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Mathias Clasen
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
Essential texts (if a particular edition is listed, you must get that one):
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
