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Global Gothic
Course Number: | LIT 110 |
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Title: | Global Gothic |
Day & Time 1: | MW 01:00PM 02:15PM |
Instructor I: | Caoile P |
Credit: | 1.00 |
Course Description: | The Gothic has always been global, with transcontinental monster hunts in novels like Frankenstein and Dracula. The tropes such as ghosts, monsters, and haunted houses in the Gothic can be readily adapted from one context into another with no shortage of scares and terrors. Writers and filmmakers from disparate times and places have contributed to this genre and tradition, exploring topics like slavery, colonialism, immigration, and technology. This course will examine how the Gothic reflects people鈥檚 fears and anxieties through sociopolitical, historical, and transnational contexts. We will read works by writers. such as Toni Morrison, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, and Nick Joaquin and view films like His House, Pulse, and Parasite. |
Comments: | Students are restricted to one 100- or 200-level LIT course. |
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