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David Hicks, PhD (New York University) Fulbright Scholar in American Studies, Summer 2020 Professor of English, Director of MFA in Creative Writing, Regis University, Denver CO (USA) dhicks@regis.edu Seminar: Thursdays 12:30-14:05, Room 111, two units per week Office Hours: Thursdays 11:30-12:30, Room 219C, or by appointment Objective: To study 19th-Century writers who were depicting the influence of the unconscious well before Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung would famously define and discuss it in the early 20th century. The authors we will study did not simply evince their understanding of their characters’ unconscious motivations, the metaphorical meanings of dreams, and the power of the “shadow” self, but brought these matters of the unconscious to the foreground as focal points and themes of their works. Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.01.2020)
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Assessment: To receive credit for the seminar students will be required . . .
· to miss no more than two classes; · to give an in-class oral presentation designed to exhibit a thorough understanding of one of the works on the syllabus from a psychoanalytic critical lens (a list of suggested topics will be distributed in the first week); · to produce a final essay (2500-3000 words, topics to be discussed with instructor) by May 31; · in the case of students wanting to produce a second graded essay for a ZK, they may do so by a date TBA (required length: 2500-3000 words, subjects to be discussed with professor). (Erasmus students may produce the second ZK graded essay if they register for it on the SIS). Bring 100-word essay proposals to our final class meeting in May. Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.01.2020)
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Required Texts: Edgar Allan Poe, The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Norton Critical Edition) Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Tales and Sketches (Penguin Classics) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Norton Critical Edition) Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Moodle) Rebecca Davis, “The Wife’s Story,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Yellow Wallpaper,” Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case,” and Emily Dickinson, selected poems (all on Moodle)
Secondary Materials: Bonaparte, Marie. The Life and Words of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Prometheus, 1980. Crews, Frederick. Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes. U of California 1989. Freud, Sigmund. Studien über Hysterie (Studies on Hysteria),1895. ---. Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams),1899. ---. Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny), 1919. ---. Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse (Introduction to Psychoanalysis), 1917. ---. Zur Einführung des Narzißmus (On Narcissism), 1914. Gilbert and Gubar, Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Greven, David. The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender. Ohio State UP, 2012. Jung, Carl. “Das Kollektiven Unbewussten“ (“The Concept of the Collective Unconscious”), 1936. ---. Man and His Symbols, 1961. ---. “Die Struktur der Psyche” (“The Structure of the Psyche”) 1927/1931. ---. Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Psychology of the Unconscious), 1912 Levi, Joseph. “Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: (a Psychoanalytic Interpretation).” American Imago Vol. 10.4. Montwieler, Katherine, and Mark Boren. “Hybridity, Anxiety, and Wombs of Destruction in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.” PsyArt. Aug 2015 Tritt, Michael. “’Young Goodman Brown’ and the Psychology of Projection.” Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1986 Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.01.2020)
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SCHEDULE
20 Feb The Unconscious: A Primer on Freud and Jung: introduction to psychoanalytic literary theory; 19th-century American society; Poe, “Shadow”; Hawthorne, “The Haunted Mind” 27 Feb The Buried Self: Poe, “The Premature Burial,” “Cask of Amontillado,” “Berenice,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” 5 Mar The Ego, Id and Superego: Poe, “Imp of the Perverse,” “Tell-Tale Heart,” “Black Cat,” “Hop Frog,” “Murders of the Rue Morgue” 12 Mar The Double: Poe, “William Wilson,” “Man of the Crowd”; “Descent …into the Maelstrom” 19 Mar Our Shadow Selves: Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym 26 Mar Repression and Guilt: Hawthorne, “The Hollow of the Three Hills,” “The Wives of the Dead,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” 2 Apr Repression and Guilt: Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” “Wakefield,” “Young Goodman Brown” 9 Apr Expiation: Hawthorne, “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” “Alice Doane’s Appeal,” “Egotism” 16 Apr Imp of the Perverse: Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” “Ethan Brand” 23 Apr Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 30 Apr Repression and Expression: Rebecca Davis, “The Wife’s Story,” Charlotte Gilman, “Yellow Wallpaper” (Moodle) 7 May Repression and Expression: Emily Dickinson, selected poems (Moodle) 14 May Repression and Self-Destruction: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”: Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” (Moodle) Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.01.2020)
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