printer friendly pageENGLISH 10A: Introduction to English I: Encountering the Monstrous in Early Literature, 600-1600
Werewolves, dragons, cannibals, witches, sea monsters, faeries, moral monstrosity, madness, the uncanny and the grotesque the monstrous is frightening, fury-filled, unknowable, and seductive. Monsters inhabit the literary imagination and the historic landscape. Monsters live on the margins of society; they are culturally and ideologically fraught; they exhibit sexual, racial, religious, and physical difference. In this course, we shall examine the depiction and meaning of the monster in literature, manuscript images, and maps from England and Wales from about 650CE to 1650CE.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Treharne, E. (PI)
;
Menna, M. (TA)
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