| 0626.3050 נרטיבים ויקטוריאניים | |
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| ד"ר אילנה גומל | סמינר |
| We define ourselves through stories. The image of the self is created in, and through, narrative, and such narratives are influenced by cultural, social, and generic determinants.
The Victorian era, preoccupied with the issue of identity in an unstable world, is rich in narratives of the self, in which the main character goes through a process of change and development. We will focus on two modalities of such narratives: the traditional bildungsroman, which is a story of a young man finding his place in society; and the female bildungsroman, which uneasily combines the heroine’s psychological growth with the traditional closure of marriage. We will also look at the Gothic double of the bildungsroman, portraying not the creation, but the destruction and disintegration of the self. The seminar will relate to the larger cultural issues of the “invention of man”, to use Foucault’s phrase, and the role of class, race and gender in the construction of identity. We will explore the rise of psychology as a particular narrative modality of self-representation. Texts: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Shorter texts and critical material will be assigned in the course of the semester. Requirements: Class participation, an oral presentation, a short response paper, and a seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |