Předmět Severoamerická gotika (AJ25044)

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Cíl

This course explores the Gothic tradition in American and Canadian fiction. Why is it that the Gothic’s excessive motifs—haunted houses, doppelgangers, tyrannical fathers, homicidal mothers, sexual transgression, supernatural beings—appear so crucial to the cultural unconscious of North America? Because Gothic tales portray horrific and violent forces erupting into ordinary life, they evoke an array of social misgivings regarding the evils of territorial conquest and race discrimination, the inadequacy of the bourgeois family and conventional gender identity, the menace of technology and market capitalism, and the failures of “New World” political utopianism. At the same time, the Gothic is one the most flexible genres for social criticism, giving voice to 200 years of cultural outsiders and misfits, among them Charles Brockden Brown’s religious fanatics, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s guilty puritans, the feminist heroines of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Margaret Atwood, the African-American survivors of slavery portrayed by Toni Morrison and the cyber-space have-nots of William Gibson. In order to analyze the Gothic plot’s enduring association with the national narratives of North Americans, we will also consult cultural criticism throughout the term as well as aesthetic and psychological theories that pertain to the Gothic (Burke on sublimity, Freud on the uncanny, and Kristeva’s theory of abjection).

Osnova

1) Introduction: 18th Century Origins of the Gothic Genre / Burke’s Theory of Sublimity / Revolution-Era Gothic / Gothic Revival in Architecture / Early North American GothicWieland – Charles Brockden Brown, 1798Wacousta – John Richardson, 1832*“What is American Gothic?,” “How to read American Gothic,” “Major themes in American Gothic,” American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction – Allan Lloyd-Smith*“Dark Journeys and Gothic Travels,” Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature – Justin Edwards2) “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “William Wilson,” “The Oval Portrait,” “The Black Cat” –Edgar Allan Poe & “The Birthmark,” “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil” – Nathaniel Hawthorne*“Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe’s ‘The Black Cat,’” American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative – Lesley Ginsberg*“White Terror, Black Dreams: Gothic Constructions of Race in the Nineteenth Century,” The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination – Eugenia DeLamotte* “The Uncanny” – Sigmund Freud*“Approaching Abjection,” Powers of Horror – Julia KristevaNo course meeting—reading response 1 due on-line3) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Vol. 2, Chap XXVIII-end of the novel) – Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852* “Gothic Imagination and Social Reform: The Haunted Houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe” – Karen Haltunnen*“Terminate or Liquidate? Poe, Sensationalism, and the Sentimental Tradition” – Jonathan Elmer*“Revivification and Utopian Time: Poe Versus Stowe” – Eva Cherniavsky4) Roughing it in the Bush – Susanna Moodie, 1852The Journals of Susanna Moodie (3 selected poems) – Margaret Atwood, 1970* “Niagara’s Abyss or Locating the Gothic Sublime,” Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature – Justin EdwardsNo course meeting—reading response 2 due on-line5) “The Yellow Wallpaper” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1891“The Jolly Corner” – Henry James, 1903-1908“The Eyes” – Edith Wharton , 1926-37“Gilman's Arabesque Wallpaper” – Marty Roth“Gothic Architectonics: The Poetics and Politics of Gothic Space” – Carol Margaret Davison“The Girl in the Library: Edith Wharton’s ‘The Eyes’ and American Gothic Traditions,” Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock6) Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner, 1936*“Beyond Silence and Realism: Trauma and the Function of Ghosts in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved” – Peter Ramos*“Black Feminism and the Canon: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Morrison's Beloved as Gothic Romances” – Philip GoldsteinNo course meeting—reading response 3 due on-line7) Lady Oracle – Margaret Atwood, 1976*“Exceeding even Gothic Texture,” Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions – Susanne Becker*”Canadian Gothic,” The Routledge Companion to the Gothic – Coral Ann Howells*“The Gothic as a Counter-Discursive Strategy in Margaret Atwood’s and Kate Grenville’s Fiction,” Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic. . . . – Gerry Turcotte8) Neuromancer – William Gibson, 1984*“Postmodernism/Gothicism” – Allan Lloyd Smith*“Beyond the Textual Body,” Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature – Justin Edwards*Intro + Chapter 1, Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson – Tatiani G. RapatzikouNo course meeting—reading response 4 due on-line9) Beloved – Toni Morrison, 1987* “Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved” – Pamela E. Barnett* “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments": Reading the African American Gothic in Wright's "BigBoy Leaves Home," Morrison's Beloved and Gomez's "Gilda” – Cedric Gael Bryant* “The Politics of Genre in Beloved” – Madhu Dubey10) American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis, 1991*Introduction to Bret Easton Ellis – Naomi Mandel* “Violence, Ethics, and the Rhetoric of Decorum in American Psycho” – Michael P. Clark*American Psycho, Hamlet, and Existential Psychosis – Alex E. Blazer* “'The Soul of this Man is His Clothes': Violence and Fashion in American Psycho” – Elana Gomel*“Parodied to Death: The Postmodern Gothic of American Psycho” – Charles J. RzepkaNo course meeting—reading response 5 due on-line11) Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje, 2000* “Unearthing Trauma, Unburying the Dead,” Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature – Justin Edwards

Literatura

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Vol. 2, Chap XXVIII-end of the novel) – Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, 978-0375724374"The Fall of the House of Usher," Edgar Allan Poe, 978-0451530318"Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne, 978-0199555154American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, 978-0679735779Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie, 978-0771034923Beloved, Toni Morrison, 978-0307264886Neuromancer, William Gibson, 978-0441012039"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 978-1613821558

Garant

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.

Vyučující

Bonita Rhoads