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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Gothic Revivals

  • Unit Code

    HMN3030

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This unit investigates revivals of the Gothic from the late 18th century to the present, exploring the way the gothic manifests itself differently within different historical periods. Students will investigate philosophical ideas about fear, such as the sublime, the uncanny and the abject. Because the gothic is inherently a transgressive mode, students will evaluate the way its revivals tend to contest social norms, raising issues about sexual, gendered, and national identities.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TRN3030

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse debates regarding the Gothicising of particular genders, sexualities, cultures, and histories.
  2. Apply philosophical theories of fear to the analysis of cultural texts and/or creative practices in the past and present.
  3. Formulate critical positions regarding the cultural use of the gothic to understand particular sites and identities.
  4. Identify and analyse philosophical positions in primary texts regarding the affect of fear.

Unit Content

  1. Dominant periods of cultural production such as Romanticism.
  2. Gothic manifestations in culture, including but not limited to Australian colonial texts and depictions of slavery in America.
  3. Historical and contemporary contexts associated with the revivals of the gothic.
  4. Manifestations of the Gothic through different genres, including but not limited to 18th century fiction and contemporary art and film.
  5. Primary philosophical texts, including psychoanalysis, regarding fear.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPrecis/Proposal50%
ProjectAcademic Project /Creative Project with Exegesis50%

Text References

  • ^ Dedicated Unit Reader
  • Birkhead, E. (1963). The tale of terror: A study of the Gothic romance. New York, NY: Russell &Russell.
  • Wolfreys, J. (2002). Victorian hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny, and literature. Houndmills, England: Palgrave.
  • Williams, G. (Ed.). (2007). The Gothic. London, England: Whitechapel.
  • Sage, V. (Ed.). (1990). The Gothic novel: A casebook. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan.
  • Rosenthal, N., & Archer, M. (2000). Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art. London, England: Royal Academy of Arts.
  • Punter, D. (1998). Gothic pathologies: The text, the body, and the law. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
  • Mishra, V. (1994). The gothic sublime. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Kristeva, J. (1982). Powers of Horror. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
  • Hogle, J. E. (Ed.). (2002). The Cambridge companion to gothic fiction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  • Graham, K. W. (Ed.). (1999). Gothic fictions: Prohibition/transgression. New York, NY: AMS Press.
  • Botting, F. (2008). Gothic romanced: Consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions. [EBook library version]. Retrieved from http://www.ecu.eblib.com.au/
  • Childs, P. (2000). Modernism. London, England: Routledge.
  • Connor, S. (Ed.). (2004). The Cambridge companion to postmodernism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  • De Lutz, D. (2006). The dangerous lover: Gothic villains, Byronism, and the nineteenth-century seduction narrative. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.

Journal References

  • Journal of Communication.
  • Eighteenth-Century Life.
  • Critical Inquiry.
  • British Journal of Aesthetics.
  • October.
  • Nineteenth-Century Studies.
  • New Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation.
  • Journal of Victorian Culture.
  • Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
  • Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Gothic Revivals

  • Unit Code

    HMN3030

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This unit investigates revivals of the Gothic from the late 18th century to the present, exploring the way the gothic manifests itself differently within different historical periods. Students will investigate philosophical ideas about fear, such as the sublime, the uncanny and the abject. Because the gothic is inherently a transgressive mode, students will evaluate the way its revivals tend to contest social norms, raising issues about sexual, gendered, and national identities.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TRN3030

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse debates regarding the Gothicising of particular genders, sexualities, cultures, and histories.
  2. Apply philosophical theories of fear to the analysis of cultural texts and/or creative practices in the past and present.
  3. Formulate critical positions regarding the cultural use of the gothic to understand particular sites and identities.
  4. Identify and analyse philosophical positions in primary texts regarding the affect of fear.

Unit Content

  1. Dominant periods of cultural production such as Romanticism.
  2. Gothic manifestations in culture, including but not limited to Australian colonial texts and depictions of slavery in America.
  3. Historical and contemporary contexts associated with the revivals of the gothic.
  4. Manifestations of the Gothic through different genres, including but not limited to 18th century fiction and contemporary art and film.
  5. Primary philosophical texts, including psychoanalysis, regarding fear.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPrecis/Proposal50%
ProjectAcademic Project /Creative Project with Exegesis50%

Text References

  • ^ Dedicated Unit Reader
  • Rosenthal, N., & Archer, M. (2000). Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art. London, England: Royal Academy of Arts.
  • Wolfreys, J. (2002). Victorian hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny, and literature. Houndmills, England: Palgrave.
  • Williams, G. (Ed.). (2007). The Gothic. London, England: Whitechapel.
  • Sage, V. (Ed.). (1990). The Gothic novel: A casebook. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan.
  • Punter, D. (1998). Gothic pathologies: The text, the body, and the law. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
  • Mishra, V. (1994). The gothic sublime. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Kristeva, J. (1982). Powers of Horror. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
  • Hogle, J. E. (Ed.). (2002). The Cambridge companion to gothic fiction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  • Graham, K. W. (Ed.). (1999). Gothic fictions: Prohibition/transgression. New York, NY: AMS Press.
  • De Lutz, D. (2006). The dangerous lover: Gothic villains, Byronism, and the nineteenth-century seduction narrative. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
  • Birkhead, E. (1963). The tale of terror: A study of the Gothic romance. New York, NY: Russell &Russell.
  • Botting, F. (2008). Gothic romanced: Consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions. [EBook library version]. Retrieved from http://www.ecu.eblib.com.au/
  • Childs, P. (2000). Modernism. London, England: Routledge.
  • Connor, S. (Ed.). (2004). The Cambridge companion to postmodernism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Journal References

  • Journal of Communication.
  • Critical Inquiry.
  • British Journal of Aesthetics.
  • Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians.
  • Eighteenth-Century Life.
  • New Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation.
  • Journal of Victorian Culture.
  • October.
  • Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
  • Nineteenth-Century Studies.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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