HENA03828U English - Free topic: Orientalism in Literary Fiction
Volume 2014/2015
Content
Orientalism’ is a way of
imagining, emphasizing, exaggerating and distorting the image of
Arab and Asian cultures. We will trace this phenomenon as it
unfolds in English imaginative fiction, theory and history. The
translation of The Arabian Nights inspired writers to
develop a new genre, the Oriental tale. We will read a number of
such tales from Romanticism to the early twentieth century. Among
the themes we will pursue is the 19th-century literature of opium
use (sometimes in the form of writing under its influence), which
is closely connected with fantasies of the Orient. We will also
analyze at tales of adventure, exploration and encounters with the
terrifying exotic. A significant focus in the second part of the
course will be the ‘Imperial Gothic’, a category which includes
fantastic and supernatural tales thematizing the anxiety of the
colonized taking revenge on the colonizer. It is our purpose to
read these Oriental horror tales to see how they are informed by
increasing imperialist doubts s and ethnic anxieties. We will take
examples from canonical authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.
Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as popular sensationalist
fiction.
The course will introduce the theory and practice of Orientalist fiction in order to enable you to study and work independently with literature and culture as part of a global exchange.
The course will introduce the theory and practice of Orientalist fiction in order to enable you to study and work independently with literature and culture as part of a global exchange.
Teaching and learning methods
Class
instruction
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
Exam 1 (Exam form B - KA 2013-ordning)
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Exam 2 (Exam form B - KA 2008-ordning)
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENA03828U
- Credit
- See exam description
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- see link to schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course responsibles
- Robert William Rix (5-776f776e7d456d7a7233707a336970)
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