2017-2018-1

ANG-MA-SZ12-1

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

ANG-MA-SZ1, Any Course

ANG-MA-SZ1, Any Course Seminar

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

heti 2.00

5

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Freud’s 1905 case-study on Dora, the young hysteric woman peaked in the birth of psychoanalysis, while The Madwoman in the Attic, Gilbert and Gubar’s vast 1979 study on 19th and 20th century women writers became an ultimate reference point in gender studies. Tracing the connections between madness (hysteria, schizophrenia, psychosis, neurosis, etc.), femininity, subjectivity, authorship and writing has been a challenging project ever since. The course proposes to analyse literary, filmic and theoretical representations of women and madness examining the discursive construction, the engendering social surveillance, as well as the transgressive potentials of the ‘female malady,’ focusing on the question: Is the madwoman a victim of patriarchal oppression, a silenced ‘leaking vessel’ of the ‘wandering womb’ or an empowering figure of female rebellion and creativity, speaking up in an embodied, subversive voice? The material to be discussed includes theoretical texts by S. Freud, Toril Moi, E. Bronfen, Gilbert and Gubar, Cixous and Clément, Elaine Showalter, Shoshana Felman, Barbara Johnson, Alice Jardine, poems by Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and its rewritings (Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea), Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being, Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat, Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, a medieval treatise on witchcraft the Malleus Maleficarum, as well as Roman Polanski’s film Repulsion, and John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence.