Seminar: Of Monsters and (Hu)Mans. The Monstrous Other Across Media - Details

Seminar: Of Monsters and (Hu)Mans. The Monstrous Other Across Media - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Of Monsters and (Hu)Mans. The Monstrous Other Across Media
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Semester WiSe 2024/25 [inaktiv]
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 31
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin Montag, 14.10.24, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

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This research seminar aims to collaboratively develop a theory of the monstrous based on literary and medial representations of the monstrous and select secondary readings. The monster is a recurring motif of embodied difference – be it of collective cultural anxieties of or obsessions with otherness. The monstrous transgresses boundaries of social normativity and morality, and straddles the liminal space of lure and repulsion. In contemporary literature, film, and other media, these transgressions raise question of queer body politics, but also work at the intersections of race and disability.
Departing from existing research on the monster in antiquity, the middles ages and early modernity, students in this seminar will explore the monstrous other and its various reincarnations in literature, film, and other media to develop a theory of the monstrous in contemporary fiction. Students will examine the recurrence of the monstrous and its adaptations in popular culture and investigate its various functions as expressions of, e.g., fear of contagion, racism, gender and sexuality.
Readings include: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty, Sadia Quraeshi Shepard’s Monsters, and Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water.

Please note: Once registered on Flex.now you will be added to the Stud.IP course at the beginning of the lecture period.

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