Study Program
Course
Status of the Course
Year
ECTS Credits
Teacher
e-mail
consultation hours
English Department
Gothic Genre
Compulsory
2014/2015
Semester
3
Assistant Professor Marko Lukić
mlukic@unizd.hr
Monday 12.00
4
Associate / Assistant
e-mail
Consultation hours
Place of Teaching
Mode of Teaching
Teaching Workload
Lectures + Seminars +
Exercises
Assessment Criteria &
Mode of Examination
Start date
Mid-Term, End-of-Term
Examinations
Final Examinations
Teaching hall 143
Lecture
Lecture + seminar
Colloquium, seminar work, oral exam
Term 1
30.3.2015.
Term 1
End date
Term 2
27.4.2015.
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Term 3
Term 4
Learning Outcomes
Enrolment Requirements
Course Contents
Required Reading
Additional Reading
Internet Sources
Course Evaluation
Procedures
Conditions for Obtaining
Signatures
Introduction to the formative period of the Gothic genre within the English and
American literary tradition, the analysis of the connection and interaction
between society and creative literary tendencies, the ability to analyze the
influence of various cultural phenomena of a particular period on the later
creative tendencies in art, literature and film.
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Bram Stoker: Dracula
R.L. Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
Stephen King: The Shining
Short stories:
E.A. Poe - “The Fall of the House of Usher”;
H.P. Lovecraft:
- “The Colour Out of Space”
- “The Rats in the Walls
- “The Terrible Old Man”
- “The Festival”
Viewing list:
The American Nightmare (A. Simon, 1994)
Halloween (J. Carpenter, 1978)
- D. Punter (1996): The Literature of Terror, New York: Longman Publishing
Group.
- F. Botting (2004): The New Critical Idiom: Gothic, Routledge
http://www.litgothic.com
Student survey PP7/OB1
The completion of all requirements needed.
Mark Grading Scale
Final Grade Calculation
1 ECTS – Class attendance (minimum 80%)
2 ECTS – Reading of the literature needed for the completion of the course,
the writing and presentation of a seminar paper.
20% writing and completing the colloquiums
20% activity during lectures and seminars
20% writing and presentation of seminar work
40 % oral exam
Comments
Topics - Lectures
No.
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Date
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Title
Introduction to the course, the Gothic genre
Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto; the creation of
recognizable structures and characters
Gothic genre and Romanticism, Victorian Gothic, Imperial
Gothic, Postcolonial Gothic
Female Gothic; Queer Gothic; The Monster; The Wandering
Jew
Golem; Mary Shelley; Frankenstein; or The Modern
Prometheus; 1832 - Anatomy Act
Various interpretative approaches to Frankenstein; or The
Modern Prometheus
Vampire, Bram Stoker –Dracula; Victorian society; reverse
colonization
Vampire and sexuality, gender issues, the subversive nature
of the vampire
Edgar Allan Poe - „The Fall oft he House of Usher”; the
influence of H.Walpole and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the
concept and the use of the “Sublime”
H.P. Lovecraft – mythology, questions of space; “The Rats
in the Walls”; Necronomicon
11.
Bret Easton Ellis; American Psycho; Serial Killer; Stephen
King; Small-town America
12.
Slasher film/Gender; Small town horror; American
Suburbia/American Nightmare
Literature
Mary Shelley; Frankenstein;
or The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley; Frankenstein;
or The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley; Frankenstein;
or The Modern Prometheus
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Bram Stoker: Dracula
“The Fall of the House of
Usher”;
H.P. Lovecraft: Short Stories
Bret Easton Ellis: American
Psycho/Stephen King: The
Shining
Bret Easton Ellis: American
Psycho/Stephen King: The
Shining
Zombie phenomena; George Romero and (American)
consumerism, 28 Days Later
The American Nightmare (2000), Dir. Adam Simon
Halloween (1978), Dir. J. Carpenter
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Seminars
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Title
Literature
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Exercises
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Date
Title
Literature
Teacher: