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  ...