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| IDE6181 | Melancholia and Schizophrenia | 3+0+0 | ECTS:6 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The objective of this course is to provide a general understanding of melancholia and schizophrenia in their relation to literature and literary production. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Define the notions of melancholia and schizophrenia and identify the problems in the definitons of these two concepts. | | | | PO - 2 : | Understand the relationship of melancholia and schizophrenia with literature and analyze the literary works addressing these two notions. | | | | PO - 3 : | Analyze the literary works with the relevant concepts and terminology. | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The course focuses on the relationship between melancholia and schizophrenia and literature. Including Ancient Greece and Roman literature, the course syllabus includes various literary works from Western literature. Along with the representation of melancholia and schizophrenia in literary works, this course also addresses the the approaches to these concepts in and by literary theories. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Hesiod, Theogony
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Sophocles, The Women of Trachis | | | Week 3 | Lucretius, On the Nature of Things.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Seneca, Phaedra | | | Week 4 | Shakespeare, Hamlet | | | Week 5 | John Milton, Lycidas | | | Week 6 | Stevenson, R. L., The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | | | Week 7 | S. Freud, Mourning and Melancholia. | | | Week 8 | Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. | | | Week 9 | Mid-term Exam | | | Week 10 | Presentations | | | Week 11 | Raymond Williams, Structures of Feeling. | | | Week 12 | P. Sayer, The Comforts of Madness. | | | Week 13 | Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power. | | | Week 14 | M. Middeke and C. Wald, The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern. | | | Week 15 | Davoine, F. Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixotes Teaching. | | | Week 16 | Final | | | |
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