Postgraduate Course: Madness in Twentieth Century Literature (ENLI11051)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Students of literature often encounter texts which represent madness, are invited to read texts using theories developed by psychoanalysts, and frequently associate literary creativity with mental instability. Advanced students of literature may therefore wish to investigate further the place of madness within literary studies. This course offers twentieth-century texts in various genres and introduces a number of different theoretical perspectives on madness.
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Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the course should be able to 1) relate representations of madness in fiction, biography, poetry, and drama to specific topics in twentieth-century history such as a) war experience, b) feminism, c) sexuality, d) psychiatric medicine, e) postmodern or consumer society 2) critically assess relationships between madness and creativity 3) understand what each genre (fiction, biography, poetry, drama) contributes to its representation of madness 4) understand the literary representation of madness in relation to various possible theories of madness, such as a) social constructionism, b) existentialism and phenomenology, c) psychoanalysis, d) social anthropology 5) explain what role literature has played in twentieth-century conceptualisations of madness