CURSO : NARRATIVE I
TRADUCCION : NARRATIVA I
SIGLA : LET1356
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : LET1344
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LITERATURE
I. DESCRIPTION
The primary focus of this course will be the analysis and discussion of a diverse sample of XIXth C.
narrative; this will also include a brief survey of the period leading up to it (XVIIIth C) as well as the turn of
the century and it's aftermath (early XXth C). The lectures and discussions will cover narrative traditions that
span from the emergence of the English novel to Modernism. An interdisciplinary approach involving literary
theory, philosophy, pop culture, film and cultural studies will be employed in these analyses.
II. OBJECTIVES
Generals:
1. To study, discuss and analyze a survey sample of XIXth C narrative, including the pre and post
narratives (XVIIIth C & early XXth C).
2. To view and understand the genre as a crossroads of interdisciplinary theory and criticism.
Specifics:
1. To maintain a continuous and dynamic dialogue with the texts, their intertexts and the theoretical
corpus.
2. To apply and achieve nuanced readings and textual analyses of traditional and non-traditional
narratives.
3. To identify and analyze the texts' points of contact with film and cultural studies.
III. CONTENTS
1. Emergence and consolidation of the novel.
1.1 Survey of XVIIIth C narrative and the consolidation of the novel as a literary genre. From
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy.
2. The Romantic and Gothic Novel.
2.1 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. -Horror, Gothic space, monstrosity, physiognomy, unheimlich,
language, form and deformity, creation and catastrophe, personal identity, anthrotopology,
cinematic/pop representations and intertexts.
3. Influence in American Narrative.
3.1 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Salem Witch Trials. The nature of evil,
wickedness and puritan American society.
4. The Victorian Novel.
4.1 Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. -Fin de siecle, the double, the fall, Faustian doom
(The monkey's paw), double encoding, sexual identity, author and text.
5. The Edwardian Novel.
5.1 Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. -Colonialism and postcolonialism, solipsism, silence and
the ineffable, solitude, alterity, and ideological landscapes.
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6. Transition into Early XXth C: The Modernist Novel.
6.1 Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. -Traits of Modernism, stream of consciousness, Bergsonian
time and memory, emancipative metanarrative, narrative parallax, disjointed and overlapping
voices.
7. The Reinvention of Horror.
7.1 H.P. Lovecraft's novella The Call of Cthulhu. Poe vs. Lovecraft, Cosmic Horror, beyond good
and evil, primeval.
IV. METHODOLOGY
- Lectures.
- Class discussions.
- Class work.
- Individual work.
- Oral presentations.
- Discussion groups.
V. EVALUATION
- Oral presentation: 20%
- Written Evaluations: 50%
- Final essay: 30%
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compulsory:
Conrad, Josef Heart of Darkness.
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe (extract).
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Young Goodman Brown.
Lovecraft, H. P. The Call of Cthulhu.
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein.
Sterne, Laurence Tristam Shandy (extract).
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway (extract).
Complementary:
Brooks, Peter Godlike Science, Unhallowed Arts.
Carroll, Noel Nightmare and the Horror Film.
Cook, Reginald The Forest of Goodman Brown's Night.
Craft, Cristopher Come See About Me.
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Hurley, Paul Young Goodman Brown's Heart of Darkness.
McClintock, Anne The Ideology of Landscape in Heart of Darkness.
Rudrum, David Living Alone: Solipsism in Heart of Darkness.
Schopenhauer, Arthur On Physiognomy.
Sherwin, Paul Frankenstein: Creation as Catastrophe.
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