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| TOPICS 389: MADNESS AND PERVERSION (in English) (3 credits) cross listed with Comparative Literature (01:195:398:01) | ||
| What thoughts, feelings and behaviors are normal?
Which are aberrant? This course looks at literary
treatments (and a selection of film adaptations)
of madness and perversion over the last four
centuries. Particular focus on the roots and
development of modern conceptions of sex and
psychology as developed in the literary work of
German-speaking Europe. Topics to include: the
holy fool; the Romantic invention of madness and
genius; sexual perversion and bourgeois normalcy;
the invention of psychology; gender and the idea
of "natural" social roles. Authors to be
considered: Erasmus, Shakespeare, Cervantes,
Sade, E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Brothers Grimm,
Sacher-Masoch, Schnitzler, Freud, Böll, Foucault,
and Süskind. |
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