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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
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Module Title	Monsters & The Monstrous in Cont. Irish Lit.
Module Code	EN302
School	SALIS
Online Module Resources
Module Teacher	Jean-Philippe Imbert
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

INACTIVE - The course will investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on Irish culture, and their contemporary literary representations.The course will have a dual focus, with the intention of: examining, from the perspective of contemporary literature, the creation of specific â€œmonstersâ€, as well as, assessing the role, function and consequences of literary creations, actions or events identified as â€œmonstrousâ€.The contemporary cultural influences of monsters and the monstrous as artistic and literary metaphors of the evil and wicked impact of societies on individuals will also be examined.The course will be based on varied literary documents belonging to many genres stemming out of Irish culture representing different aspects of contemporary Irish monsters and contemporary Irish representations of the monstrous.The topics will be selected from the following: Introduction to teratology (the science of monsters) Contemporary teratology and literature Myths and the monstrous Dracula Irish Vampires Irish Monsters Beauty/ugliness, attraction/repulsion of the monstrous The discourse of monsters and the monstrous Irish Theatre and monsters Irish Films and monsters Popular Irish literary and cultural monsters today: vampires, ware-wolves, grotesque and abnormal creations Popular Irish T.V. scripts and monsters (Father Ted, Fair City) Advertising and the monstrous in Ireland Vice and oppression in/and contemporary Irish literature and culture Irish GLT literature and the monstrous Religion and the monstrous in Ireland

Learning Outcomes

1. Explore, from an inter-disciplinary perspective, the nature of the contemporary literary and non-literary monstrous in Ireland
2. Assess the way conteporary literature and conteporary films both reflect and respond to the monstrous in irish society
3. Acknowledge the centrality of the issue of monsters and the monstrous in todays Ireland
4. Demonstrate an adequate level of critical understanding as a means to address Irish contemporary debates
5. Articualte orally and in written form their thoughts and ideas

Workload	Full-time hours per semester
*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Seminars	24	No Description
Independent learning	51	No Description
Total Workload: 75

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Apter, T. E., Fantastic Literature.
An Approach to Reality (London : Macmillan, 1982).

Beal, Timothy K., Religion and its Monsters (New York,London.
Routledge, 2002).

Birchall, Mark, What Kind of Monster? (London.
Andersen, 2003).

Bleich, David, Utopia.
The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy (Ann Arbor : UMI Research Press, 1984).

Buller, Laura, Myths and Monsters.
from Dragons to Werewolves (London : Dorling Kindersley, 2003).

Cartmell, Deborah (ed.), Alien Identities.
Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction (London : Pluto, 1999).

Cawson, Frank, The Monsters in the Mind.
the Face of Evil in Myth, Literature and Contemporary Life (Lewes : Book Guild,1995).

Cornwell, Neil, The Literary Fantastic.
from Gothic to Postmodernism (London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990).

Creed, Barbara,The Monstrous-Feminine.
Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (London : Routledge, 1993).

Farson, Daniel, Vampires, Zombies, and Monster Men (Garden City, N.Y.
Doubleday, 1976).

Grant, John, Monster Mysteries (London.
Apple Press, 1992).

Hackett, Martin, Fantasy Wargaming.
Games with Magic & Monsters (Wellingborough : Patrick Stephens, 1990).

Halberstam, Judith, Skin Shows.
Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (London : Duke University Press, 1998).

Huet, Marie-Hélène, Monstrous Imagination (Cambridge, Mass..
Harvard University Press, 1993).

Hume, Kathryn, Fantasy and Mimesis.
Responses to Reality in Western Literature (New York, London : Methuen, 1984).

Ingebretsen, Edward J., At Stake.
Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture (Chicago,London : University of Chicago Press, 2001).

Jackson, Rosemary, Fantasy.
the Literature of Subversion (London : Methuen, 1981).

Justice, Keith (ed.) Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reference.
An Annotated Bibliography of Works about Literature and Film (London : Mc Farland, 1989).

Landsburg, Alan, In Search of Myths and Monsters (London.
Corgi, 1977).

Morse, Donald & Bertha, Csilla (eds) â€œMore Real than Realityâ€.
The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (London : Greenwood Press, 1991).

Newman, Paul, A History of Terror.
Fear & Dread through the Ages (Stroud : Sutton, 2000).

Rabkin, Eric,The Fantastic in Literature (Princeton.
Princeton University Press, 1976).

Rose, Carol, Giants, Monsters and Dragons.
an Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth (Oxford : ABC-CLIO, 2000).

Schlobin, Roger, C. (ed.)The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art (Notre Dame.
University of Notre Dame Press, 1982).

Tropp, Martin, Images of Fear.
How Horror Stories Helped Shape Modern Culture (Folkestone : McFarland, 1991).

Series of e-books, collection of essays from the www.wickedness.net intercultural research group on evil and human wickedness..
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Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Course Work Breakdown
Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

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