担当教員：メアリー ナイトン
講義題目：“the grotesque” in the literature and culture of the 19th and 20th-century U.S.
This course will focus on “the grotesque” in the literature and culture of the 19th and 20th-century U.S., in particular, although we will take time to consider the so-called mode of ero-guro nansensu in Japanese literature as well. We will grapple with, and argue against, the grotesque's ambiguous definition as a genre or mode of literary discourse indistinguishable from “the Gothic.” We will read non-fiction texts in literary and art theory, beginning with Wolfgang Kayser's classic text, and move on to relevant discussions in the fields of psychoanalysis, sexology, social policy, and history. Fictional texts will include works by Poe, Hawthorne, Sherwood Anderson, O'Connor, Faulkner, and others. We will look at film excerpts, photographs, and online exhibits about “freaks” and monsters in American culture, and think about the relationship between what counts as normal and what (or who) gets rejected as “outside” the norm, or treated as the deformed and/or decadent dark side of the mainstreamculture.
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