2009 Course Handbook
ENGL271: Gothic Visions: From Sublime to Suburban Gothic
This course tracks the cultural history of the gothic genre from the sublime landscapes and haunted castles of Anne Radcliffe to the hyper-real suburban universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. From its inception the Gothic genre has been a popular and controversial cultural phenomenon, which has dramatised the darker side of the senses and imagination, as well as testing the boundaries of literary taste. In Gothic fiction nothing is ever certain. The domestic and familiar are merely comforting illusions that veil the darker reality of unspoken fears and desires. Home, city, work, identity, sexuality, the body and the mind are all sites that are open to the destabilising play and uncanny effects of the Gothic imagination as the selected texts, films and TV series, which range from the popular to the canonical exemplify.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: 11 April; 6 June) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Helen Groth |
| Prerequisites: | ENGL120 |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of English |
Timetable Information
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