Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-218E/t
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts 1.: Cultural Theories of Addiction
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is the historical and philosophical investigation of the concept and the phenomenon of addiction
- Course content
- Course content: readings, extracts from: Berridge Opium and the People, Sedgewick, Epidemics of the Will; Coleridge: „Kubla Khan” and the „Preface”; Youngquist Bad Habits + Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy; Milligan: Opium Smoking and British Identity + A.C. Doyle „The Man with the Twisted Lips”; Walter Benjamin: „Some Motifs in Baudelatre”; Film: The Gambler (K. Makk + Dostoyevsky); Reith „The Experience of Play”; Keane „Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time”; M. Duras: Moderato Cantabile
- Assessment method
- · active participation and an end term test
- Bibliography
- Virginia Berridge Opium and the People, Eve Sedgewick: „Epidemics of the Will” Coleridge: „Kubla Khan” and the „Preface” Paul Youngquist „Bad Habits” in Monstrosities, Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy; Milligan: „Opium Smoking and the Oriental Infection of British Identity” A.C. Doyle „The Man with the Twisted Lip” Walter Benjamin: „Some Motifs in Baudelatre”; The Gambler (movie by K. Makk + Dostoyevsky); Gerad Reith „The Experience of Play”; Susan Keane „Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time”; Marguarite Duras: Moderato Cantabile