Gothic Studies
Gothic Studies is a CTY Ireland humanities course and is available for session 2 only.
Course Description
This course will examine what exactly it means when something is described as “Gothic” by looking at all areas that rejoice in the name, including sub-culture, film, fashion, literature, and music. Starting with the invention of literary gothic in the 19th century then moving into the 20th and 21st, students will examine key works of film and literature that have been labelled as Gothic. We will discuss the aesthetics style of gothic along with themes and ideas in order to define what has been meant by the term both today and in the past. Though introduction of theoretical ideas taken from film and literary criticism students will develop their own powers of analysis and deepen their understanding of the gothic. We will also look at the ‘cultural gothic’ and those called ‘Goths’ though various decades and explore their relationship to the literary and film gothic. By the end of this course students will have been given a chance to express and explore there understand of the gothic through presentations, academic writing and creative exercise were they meet, shadow and embrace the other.
