32212
Advanced seminar
WiSe 24/25: American Grotesque
James Dorson
Comments
The grotesque is a literary mode that blends the strange, unsettling, and often absurd to challenge our perceptions of normality. It often features distorted bodies, bizarre landscapes, and unsettling imagery, creating a sense of both horror and dark humor. The grotesque is commonly used to negotiate questions about human nature, science, morality, and social inequality, confronting readers with tensions between beauty and excess, the normal and abnormal, attraction and repulsion. In literature, it can serve as a tool to explore taboo subjects, challenge authority, or disrupt conventional notions of reality and social order. The first part of the class focuses on important theories of the grotesque. In the second part of the class, we will examine uses of the grotesque in American fiction from the middle of the nineteenth century until the present. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2024-10-16 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-10-23 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-10-30 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-11-06 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-11-13 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-11-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-11-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-12-04 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-12-11 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2024-12-18 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2025-01-08 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2025-01-15 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2025-01-22 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2025-01-29 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2025-02-05 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2025-02-12 12:00 - 14:00