{"id":19120,"date":"2012-03-07T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19120"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:09:18","slug":"american-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19120&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"American Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduate Elective<\/span>
American Gothic
University of Zagreb
Spring 2012, <\/strong>8th and 10th semester
Prof. Charles L. Crow<\/strong>
charleslcrow@yahoo.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday 2:00-2:45, A-123<\/span>
Friday 11:00-12:30, A-105<\/span><\/p>\n

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.”<\/span>
The Shadow<\/em> — old time radio show<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements: regular attendance and participation in discussion. A paper of about 12 pages, written as a conference paper. Final examination.<\/span>
Note 1: The syllabus below may be modified as the pace and needs of the class indicate.<\/span>
Note 2: Most readings can be found on-line. In a few cases I will provide texts that may be duplicated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: 8-9 March.<\/span>
Introduction to the Gothic.<\/span>
Cotton Mather, Trials of Martha Carrier and G. B., “A Notable Exploit; Wherein, Dux FaeminaFacti” [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan].<\/span>
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Alice Doan’s Appeal”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: 15-16 March<\/span>
Loomings<\/span>
“Abraham Panther,” “A Surprising Account of the Discovery of a Lady “<\/span>
J. Hector St. John de Cr\u00e8vecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer, <\/em>Letter IX<\/span>
Charles Brockden Brown, “Somnambulism”<\/span>
John Neal, “Idiosyncrasies”<\/span>
Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” <\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: 22-23 March<\/span>
The Dark Romantics I<\/span>
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”<\/span>
Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” “The Bell Tower,” BenitoCereno<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: 29-30 March<\/span>
The Dark Romantics II (Poe Festival)<\/span>
“Hop-Frog,” “The Cask of Amontillado,””The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven,” “The City in the Sea,” “Ulalume,” “Annabel Lee,” “Dream-Land.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5: 5-6 April<\/span>
Retrospective New England Gothic<\/span>
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Skeleton in Armor.”<\/span>
Harriet Prescott Spofford, “Circumstance.”<\/span><\/p>\n

(April 6 is Good Friday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6: 12-13 April<\/span>
Gothic Women I<\/span>
Louisa May Alcott, “A Whisper in the Dark”<\/span>
Emily Dickinson, “Through lane it lay \u2013 through bramble,” “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,””‘Tis so appalling \u2013 it exhilarates”, “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments,<\/span>
“”One need not be a Chamber \u2013 to be Haunted,” “‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,””If I may have it, when it’s dead,” “What mystery pervades a well!” <\/span><\/p>\n

Week 7: 19-20 April<\/span>
Gothic of Race<\/span>
Folk tale, “Talking Bones”<\/span>
Charles Chesnutt, “The Sheriff’s Children,” “The Dumb Witness,” “The Marked Tree.”<\/span>
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Lynching of Jube Benson” <\/span>
Alice Dunbar Nelson, “Sister Josepha”<\/span>
Grace King, “The Little Convent Girl”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 8: 26-27 April<\/span>
Some haunted houses:<\/span>
Madeline Yale Wynne, “The Little Room”<\/span>
Elia Wilkinson Peattie, “The House that Was Not”<\/span>
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Week 9: 3-4 May<\/span><\/p>\n

Some weird tales:<\/span>
Edith Wharton, “The Eyes”<\/span>
Ambrose Bierce, \u201cAn Inhabitant of Carcosa,\u201d \u201cThe Death of HalpinFrayser.\u201d<\/span>
Robert W. Chambers, “In the Court of the Dragon.”<\/span>
H. P. Lovecraft, “The Stranger” <\/span><\/p>\n

Week 10: 10-11 May.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gothic of the village:<\/span>
Stephen Crane, “The Monster”<\/span>
Poems by E. A. Robinson,:””LukeHavergal”, “Lisette and Eileen,””The Dark House.” “The Mill,” “Souvenir,” “Why He Was There.”<\/span>
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 11: 17-18 May.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gothic Women II<\/span>
Kate Chopin, “D\u00e9sire\u00e9’s Baby,”<\/span>
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, \u201cLuella Miller,\u201d \u201cOld Woman Magoun\u201d<\/span>
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall Paper”<\/span>
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily’<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 12: 24-25 May.Modern and contemporary works, chosen by the class.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 13: 31 May-1 June.Modern and contemporary works, chosen by the class.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 14: 8 June (June 7 is Corpus Christi day)<\/span><\/p>\n

Discuss John Sayles’s film, Lone Star<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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