AJ25048 Insanity in American Short Fiction

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/20/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Christopher Stuart (lecturer), Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A., Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
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Course objectives
Please note that this is a full-credit, intensive course and will be held the week before the spring semester begins, February 13-17, five days, ninety minutes in the morning, ninety minutes in the afternoon. The course will be guest-taught by Christopher Stuart from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, cstuart3960@gmail.com, and coordinated by Katerina Prajznerova, 68450@mail.muni.cz. All readings will be available in ELF.
This course will investigate representations of mental illness in the shorter work of American fiction writers across the history of the United States, from the 1820s through the 1980s. Authors considered might include, but will not necessarily be limited to: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, and Raymond Carver. The works of the selected writers will be considered in their historical contexts, with special emphasis on major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of the insane in the United States, and on the rise and fall of the state-sponsored insane asylum. As a part of that project, we will also discuss brief readings from theorists, both historical and contemporary, who have influenced American notions of mental illness and mental health.
Syllabus
  • Please note that this is a full-credit, intensive course and will be held the week before the spring semester begins, February 13-17, five days, ninety minutes in the morning, ninety minutes in the afternoon. The course will be guest-taught by Christopher Stuart from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, cstuart3960@gmail.com, and coordinated by Katerina Prajznerova, 68450@mail.muni.cz. All readings will be available in ELF.
  • This course will investigate representations of mental illness in the shorter work of American fiction writers across the history of the United States, from the 1820s through the 1980s. Authors considered might include, but will not necessarily be limited to: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, and Raymond Carver. The works of the selected writers will be considered in their historical contexts, with special emphasis on major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of the insane in the United States, and on the rise and fall of the state-sponsored insane asylum. As a part of that project, we will also discuss brief readings from theorists, both historical and contemporary, who have influenced American notions of mental illness and mental health.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.

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