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Nov 21, 2024
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ENGL 070 PZ -Horror and the American Gothic
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The thrill of the uncanny, what Sigmund Freud describes as its lasciviousness, lays bare the connection between horror and suspense, and between abjection and delight in another’s suffering. In this course, we’ll focus on a particularly uncanny kind of horror, the American Gothic, and its interactions with racial and economic fears, anxieties, and desires. In addition to selections from Freud, we’ll read Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Shirley Jackson, and Flannery O’Connor, and watch contemporary Queer and Black Gothic cinema and television. At each step we’ll ask: “What terrifies us most, and why?â€
Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal .
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