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

Tha Anatomy of Melancholy (Selections)
Burton Robert
(Available online through Project Gutenburg: https://www.gutenberg.org/) :
Mandatory

Poems (Selections will be provided through Moodle)
Clare John
. :
Mandatory

Dora: an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (PDF will be provided through class Moodle, also in The Freud Reader, ed. Peter Gay)
Freud Sigmund
. :
Mandatory

The Book of Margery Kempe (Selections), trans. Barry Windeatt (Available online through Proquest Literature Online: http://literature.proquest.dom/)
Kempe Margery
. :
Mandatory

Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason
Foucault Michel
London : Routledge : 2001 : xiv, 282 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-25385-3
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

"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)
Gilman Charlotte Perkins
. :
Mandatory

"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)
Kristeva Julia
. :
Mandatory

(Selections will be provided through Moodle)
Owen Wilfred
. :
Mandatory

Bell Jar.(Selection provided through Moodle)
Plath Sylvia
. :
Mandatory

Hamlet (selections -available online through Folger Digital Texts: http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org)
Shakespeare William
. :
Mandatory

(Selections will be provided through Moodle)
Sassoon Siegfried
. :
Mandatory