The seminar will focus on the works of five women authors, written in various languages and in varying social and cultural contexts: Mary Shelley ("Frankenstein"); Elena Ferantte ("Troubling Love", "The days of Abandonment" and "The Lost Daughter"); Claris Lispector ("Agua Viva" and "The Via Crucis of the Body"); Ingeborg Bachmann ("Malina") and Yehudit Hendel (Hakoach Haacher).These works will be discussed  in relation to the concept of "feminine writing" – as offered by Hélène Cixous, among others  (in her writings on Lispector), and to Julia Kristeva's "abjection". An understanding of  art in general, and of feminine writing in particular, as a space of encounter with the Unheimliche – an understanding toward which the texts are possibly oriented - will be introduced. The seminar requires presence in classes, reading of literary and other materials and a submission of a final paper.