Syllabus:

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
Search the University Library catalogue

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