{"id":19162,"date":"2012-07-14T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19162"},"modified":"2012-07-14T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:51:17","slug":"a-historical-survey-of-the-fantastic-in-british-literature-2012-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19162&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature (2012-13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: <\/strong>A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
Instructor<\/strong>: Asst. Prof. Iva Polak
ECTS credits: <\/strong>6
Status:<\/strong> elective
Semester: <\/strong>7th<\/sup> and 9th<\/sup> \u00a0semester
Enrollment requirements: <\/strong>enrollment in the 7th <\/sup>and\/or 9th<\/sup> semester
Course description:<\/strong> The course offers a historical survey of fantasy in British literature and includes discussion on the most seminal theoretical works on fantasy and the fantastic. Texts belonging to the earlier periods will be discussed in the framework of fantasy as a specific historical mode o whereas texts appearing alongside the rise of the novel, i.e. from Romanticism onwards, will be analyzed against the theory of the fantastic as a prose genre. Some literary works are analyzed alongside their cinematic adaptations. Treatment of fantasy and the fantastic will raise issues such as mimesis, rhetoric of the real and unreal, reasons for early appearance of fantasy in literature \u00a0and its parallel existence with works written into literary realism. \u00a0Analysis of selected text will be based on the introduction of terminology relevant for this field, such as fantasy, fantastic, the fantastic and its neighbouring (sub)genres.
Objectives:<\/strong> Strengthening students\u2019 awareness of the existence of fantasy from the very beginnings of English literature; detection of shifts in the meaning and importance of the fantastic in literature; a clearer understanding of the postulates of the fantastic.
Course requirements: <\/strong>The final grade is based on continuous assessment<\/span> which includes regular attendance, preparation for and participation in class, writing small assignments, and timely submission of the final paper. The paper is worth 70% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 30% of the final grade. Students must meet all requirements of continuous assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:
WEEK 1
<\/strong>Mimesis and literary canon
Short film: A Trip to the Moon <\/em>(Le voyage dans la lune<\/em>), Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s (1902)
WEEK 2
<\/strong>What is fantastic in fantasy. Genre theory (Todorov\/Chanady\/Brooke-Rose)
WEEK 3
<\/strong>The problem of the fantastic in the Anglo-Saxon (OE) literature
Beowulf<\/em> , c. 8th<\/sup> c. (excerpts) \u2013 historical context, implicit\/encoded reader; heroic or fantastic epic
WEEK 4
<\/strong>The problem of the fantastic in the Middle-English Period
Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ (The Canterbury Tales<\/em>) c. 1380-1400 \u2013 historical context, fable, fantasy of the so-called \u201csimple forms\u201d (Einfache Formen<\/em>)
WEEK 5
<\/strong>Appropriation of fantasy in the Early Modern Period
William Shakespeare, The Tempest<\/em>, 1610-1 \u2013 romance; construction of the supernatural; additional cinematic adaptations (fantasy, SF)
WEEK 6
<\/strong>William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, <\/em>1595 \u2013 application of Todorov and Chanady; N. Frye’s \u201cGreen World\u201d
WEEK 7
<\/strong>Appropriation of fantasy in the Neoclassical Period
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels <\/em>(1726) (excerpts) \u2013 18th<\/sup> c. novel, Menippean satire, fantasy and allegory, location of the 4th<\/sup> journey; the problem of utopia (Plato, More)
WEEK 8
<\/strong>Fantasy and the Victorian Period
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland <\/em>\u00a0(1865) \u2013 ‘amoral’ Victorian fantasy literature; construction of meaning (Jabberwocky); source of the supernatural
WEEK 9
<\/strong>Constitution of SF as a genre
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine<\/em> (1895) \u2013 \u2018impure\u2019 SF, novum (D. Suvin)
[Film: The Time Machine<\/em> (1960), dir. George Pal]
WEEK 10
<\/strong>Rise of SF in the UK and USA
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451<\/em> (1953)\u2013 dystopia, SF
[Film: Fahrenheit 451<\/em> (1966), dir. Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut]
WEEK 11
<\/strong>J.R.R. Tolkien \u2013 epic fantasy, high fantasy; Tolkien on fantasy
WEEK 12
<\/strong>Tolkien cont.
WEEK 13
<\/strong>Alasdair Gray, Lanark<\/em> (1981) \u2013 fantasy and realism; metafiction, intertextuality, postmodernism
WEEK 14
<\/strong>Alasdair Gray, Lanark<\/em> (1981) \u2013 cont.
<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading list:
<\/strong>Novels:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, IV voyage
<\/em>Lewis Carroll, Alice<\/em>‘s Adventures in Wonderland
<\/em>H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
<\/em>Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
<\/em>Alasdair Gray, Lanark
<\/em>Note: Analysis of literary texts covering the period until the rise of the novel is based on selected excerpts.\u00a0 It is presumed that English lit. graduate students read A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em> and The Tempest<\/em> by W. Shakespeare during their undergrad. studies.
<\/span><\/p>\n

Theory:
– Sandner, David (ed). Fantastic Literature. A Critical Reader, Praeger, <\/em>2004. (selection)<\/span>
– Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic. A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, <\/em>Cornell UP,1975.
– Chanady, Amaryll Beatrice. Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved Versus Unresolved Antinomy<\/em>, Garland Publishing Inc, 1985.
– Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal. Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic, <\/em>CUP, <\/em>1981. (excerpts)<\/span>
– Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy. The Literature of Subversion, <\/em>Routledge, 1981. <\/span>
– Tolkien, J.R.R. The Monster and the Critics and Other Essays<\/em>, HarperCollins, 2006. (selection)<\/span>
– \u010capek, Karel. In Praise of Newspapers and Other Essays on the Margin of Literature<\/em>, Allen&Uwin, 1951. (selection)
<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional materials are received in the class.<\/span><\/p>\n

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