Description

Haunted-House Fiction 

‘All houses are haunted—by memories, by the history of their sites, by their owners’ fantasies and projections or by the significance they acquire for agents or strangers.’ (B. Curtis, Dark Places : the Haunted House in Film, 2008).

In this seminar, we will discuss the use of the haunted-house trope in two novellas and their film adaptations:

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1898 (Penguin Classics).

>  Jack Clayton, The Innocents, 1961.

Susan Hill, The Woman in Black, 1983 (Vintage, 1998).

>  James Watkins, The Woman in Black, 2012.

Course objectives:

·      To further students’ knowledge of supernatural fiction.  

·      To introduce students to film studies.

·      To help students hone their close reading skills while also considering historical and cultural context.

·      To help students appreciate the relevance of theory to literary analysis and discussion.

·      To help students develop coherent arguments and articulate their ideas effectively in oral and written forms.  

Compétences visées

Familiarity with critical discourses on one or several key texts.

Disciplines

• Études anglophones

Informations complémentaires

Sophie Mantrant :  mantrant@unistra.fr

Bibliographie

Please use this edition:

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. Vintage International, 2006.

Secondary bibliography:

Frye, Steven (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Hay, John (ed.), Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Kenneth, White. Une Apocalypse tranquille: crise et création dans la culture occidentale, Grasset, 1985.

Payne, Mark, Flowers of Time. On Postapocalyptic Fiction, Princeton University Press, 2020.

Contacts

Responsable(s) de l'enseignement

• Sophie Mantrant