21/02/2023
Durante el semestre 2023-1, la docente Daniella Wurst dictará el curso «Narratives of Horror in Film and Literature».
This course focuses on the horror genre and the exploration of the sinister in contemporary narrative. Using a comparative lens you will read classic authors from different periods (Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, among others), discussing their influences and the way in which the use of horror has been transformed over time, particularly in Latin America. You will reflect on how horror allows you to address social issues and delve into what is repressed in society.
Why is the use of fear and the fantastic so effective as a narrative strategy? The genre known as «horror» is not a new phenomenon, but has played an important role since the eighteenth century, when Gothic fiction sought to evoke powerful emotional responses from a public fascinated and strongly inspired by the Enlightenment. Gothic works, as well as the numerous works of horror produced thereafter, use narrative fictions to confront their audiences with their fears, anxieties, and repressed desires.
This course will take an interdisciplinary look at the horror genre through different narratives (literary, filmic, visual) in order to delve into what these narratives reveal about culture, society, and its ills.
El código del curso es LIT105, horario I615.
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