İDE236

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

This course illustrates the interdisciplinary approach in literature through fields such as Psychology and Literary Theories, thus enabling students to gain a critical perspective.

Trauma and Literature by Roger Kurtz
The Wounded Storyteller by A. Frank
The Beloved by Toni Morrison; Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank;Judith Herman's Trauma
and Recovery

Trauma theory, one of the main fields of psychoanalysis, offers a new approach to the interpretation of literary texts. approach. Among the main objectives of this course is to see how and with which techniques people's individual, cultural and social traumas are reflected in literature.

1. To understand the relationship between literature and psychology
2. To be able to apply trauma theory to literary texts
3. To learn the social and individual causes and consequences of trauma
4. Recognize different types of trauma and exemplify them in literary works

Week 1: Introduction: Psychoanalytic Origins of Trauma Studies in Literature
Week 2: Introduction: Psychoanalytic Origins of Trauma Studies in Literature
Week 3: Understanding and Defining Trauma: Dori Laub: "Bearing Witness"
Week 4: Holocaust Narratives: Frank's Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Week 5: Holocaust Narratives: Frank's Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Week 6: Post-War Trauma: excerpts from Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
Week 7: Midterm & Post-War Trauma: selections from war poetry
Week 8: Feminist Approaches in Trauma Studies: excerpts from Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery
Week 9: Feminist Approaches in Trauma Studies: Toni Morrison's Beloved
Week 10: Feminist Approaches in Trauma Studies: Toni Morrison's Beloved
Week 11: Week: Trauma and the 9/11 Attack: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers
Week 12: End of Semester Review

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Assignments 25 %
• Participation 5 %