Digitale Lehre
Due to the current situation, this course in the summer term 2020 is going to be taught online and will be organised and conducted via the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle. Please make sure in the course of this week that you are able to log into moodle under https://moodle.tu-darmstadt.de and see your courses. Should you encounter any problems with this, please contact the moodle support team (https://www.e-learning.tu-darmstadt.de/werkzeuge/moodle/index.de.jsp) immediately and before the start of the semester in calendar week 17. All further organization, teaching and communication in this course is going to be via moodle. Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Lehrinhalte
The Gothic Novel, originally a prototypically romantic genre, can be found in all periods from the Age of Reason to Postmodernism. Its variations even disseminated into various cultural discourses like architecture, painting, film even contemporary youth culture and popular music.
This seminar will try not only to establish the general features of the gothic novel, but also explore methods of decoding them both in a hermeneutic and computational approach. We will look into different kinds of texts ranging from the 18th to the late 19th century exploring their gothic features in changing historical contexts and ask questions concerning cultural and psychological functions and implications. Some of the aspects treated include concepts of the sublime, the uncanny, the representations of sex and gender, death and violence and its manifestations. Taking Horace Walpoles [i]The Castle of Otranto[/i] (1764) as our starting point, we will follow traces of the Gothic to the present looking at adaptations in film (i.e. [i]Nosferatu[/i], Bram Stokers [i]Dracula[/i], [i]Dracula[/i] TV series) as well as film classics (i.e. [i]The Shining[/i]) and popular TV shows (i.e. [i]Stranger Things[/i],[i] Black Mirror[/i]).
We will explore and challenge the observations made by developing and applying digital methods. With its diachronic range and multimodal occurrences, the Gothic serves well as case study to critically reflect upon popular digital humanities methods such as sentiment analysis or topic modelling.
The definitive list of reading (and viewing) assignments will be announced in the first session. Note that Horace Walpoles [i]The Castle of Otranto[/i] (1764) and Matthew Gregory Lewis [i]The Monk[/i] (1796) will be treated early in the semester and MUST therefore be read before the beginning of the seminar. They are both included (together with Vathek and Frankenstein) in [i]Four Gothic Novels[/i] (Oxford: OUP, 1994) which is available rather cheaply via the second hand book market.
Literatur
A preliminary bibliography will be made available using Zotero.
Official Course Description
The Gothic Novel, originally a prototypically romantic genre, can be found in all periods from the Age of Reason to Postmodernism. Its variations even disseminated into various cultural discourses like architecture, painting, film even contemporary youth culture and popular music.
This seminar will try not only to establish the general features of the gothic novel, but also explore methods of decoding them both in a hermeneutic and computational approach. We will look into different kinds of texts ranging from the 18th to the late 19th century exploring their gothic features in changing historical contexts and ask questions concerning cultural and psychological functions and implications. Some of the aspects treated include concepts of the sublime, the uncanny, the representations of sex and gender, death and violence and its manifestations. Taking Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto (1764) as our starting point, we will follow traces of the Gothic to the present looking at adaptations in film (i.e. Nosferatu, Bram Stokers Dracula, Dracula TV series) as well as film classics (i.e. The Shining) and popular TV shows (i.e. Stranger Things, Black Mirror).
We will explore and challenge the observations made by developing and applying digital methods. With its diachronic range and multimodal occurrences, the Gothic serves well as case study to critically reflect upon popular digital humanities methods such as sentiment analysis or topic modelling.
The definitive list of reading (and viewing) assignments will be announced in the first session. Note that Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Matthew Gregory Lewis The Monk (1796) will be treated early in the semester and MUST therefore be read before the beginning of the seminar. They are both included (together with Vathek and Frankenstein) in Four Gothic Novels (Oxford: OUP, 1994) which is available rather cheaply via the second hand book market.
Due to the current situation, this course in the summer term 2020 is going to be taught online and will be organised and conducted via the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle. Please make sure in the course of this week that you are able to log into moodle under https://moodle.tu-darmstadt.de and see your courses. Should you encounter any problems with this, please contact the moodle support team (https://www.e-learning.tu-darmstadt.de/werkzeuge/moodle/index.de.jsp) immediately and before the start of the semester in calendar week 17. All further organization, teaching and communication in this course is going to be via moodle. Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Lehrinhalte
The Gothic Novel, originally a prototypically romantic genre, can be found in all periods from the Age of Reason to Postmodernism. Its variations even disseminated into various cultural discourses like architecture, painting, film even contemporary youth culture and popular music.
This seminar will try not only to establish the general features of the gothic novel, but also explore methods of decoding them both in a hermeneutic and computational approach. We will look into different kinds of texts ranging from the 18th to the late 19th century exploring their gothic features in changing historical contexts and ask questions concerning cultural and psychological functions and implications. Some of the aspects treated include concepts of the sublime, the uncanny, the representations of sex and gender, death and violence and its manifestations. Taking Horace Walpoles [i]The Castle of Otranto[/i] (1764) as our starting point, we will follow traces of the Gothic to the present looking at adaptations in film (i.e. [i]Nosferatu[/i], Bram Stokers [i]Dracula[/i], [i]Dracula[/i] TV series) as well as film classics (i.e. [i]The Shining[/i]) and popular TV shows (i.e. [i]Stranger Things[/i],[i] Black Mirror[/i]).
We will explore and challenge the observations made by developing and applying digital methods. With its diachronic range and multimodal occurrences, the Gothic serves well as case study to critically reflect upon popular digital humanities methods such as sentiment analysis or topic modelling.
The definitive list of reading (and viewing) assignments will be announced in the first session. Note that Horace Walpoles [i]The Castle of Otranto[/i] (1764) and Matthew Gregory Lewis [i]The Monk[/i] (1796) will be treated early in the semester and MUST therefore be read before the beginning of the seminar. They are both included (together with Vathek and Frankenstein) in [i]Four Gothic Novels[/i] (Oxford: OUP, 1994) which is available rather cheaply via the second hand book market.
Literatur
A preliminary bibliography will be made available using Zotero.
Official Course Description
The Gothic Novel, originally a prototypically romantic genre, can be found in all periods from the Age of Reason to Postmodernism. Its variations even disseminated into various cultural discourses like architecture, painting, film even contemporary youth culture and popular music.
This seminar will try not only to establish the general features of the gothic novel, but also explore methods of decoding them both in a hermeneutic and computational approach. We will look into different kinds of texts ranging from the 18th to the late 19th century exploring their gothic features in changing historical contexts and ask questions concerning cultural and psychological functions and implications. Some of the aspects treated include concepts of the sublime, the uncanny, the representations of sex and gender, death and violence and its manifestations. Taking Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto (1764) as our starting point, we will follow traces of the Gothic to the present looking at adaptations in film (i.e. Nosferatu, Bram Stokers Dracula, Dracula TV series) as well as film classics (i.e. The Shining) and popular TV shows (i.e. Stranger Things, Black Mirror).
We will explore and challenge the observations made by developing and applying digital methods. With its diachronic range and multimodal occurrences, the Gothic serves well as case study to critically reflect upon popular digital humanities methods such as sentiment analysis or topic modelling.
The definitive list of reading (and viewing) assignments will be announced in the first session. Note that Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Matthew Gregory Lewis The Monk (1796) will be treated early in the semester and MUST therefore be read before the beginning of the seminar. They are both included (together with Vathek and Frankenstein) in Four Gothic Novels (Oxford: OUP, 1994) which is available rather cheaply via the second hand book market.
- Lehrende: BorekLuise
Semester: ST 2020