CityU GE 4101

CityU GE 4101 City University of Hong Kong
GE4101 - Madness and Literature - 瘋狂與文學 Madness and theories of madness have nourished literature and art from antiquity.

Madness has often been looked upon as divine, inspired and insightful, but also as aberrant, inhuman and irrational. This course aims to challenge students to think anew about the psychological expressions of the human mind within various cultural contexts. It engages them in a critical discussion of literary representations of madness and mental illness from historical, cross-cultural and interdi

sciplinary perspectives. Course themes include cultural perceptions of madness, pre-modern representations of madness in the Western and Chinese traditions, links between psychology and literature, religious guilt, creative genius, dissent, trauma, megalomania, women and madness, and depictions of mental illness (schizophrenia, depression, paranoia) in literature and film.

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