The course aims to encourage students to bring insights from theories on gender to a reading of literary texts; to introduce students to a canon of women's writing and to enable students to apply theoretical perspectives to the interpretation of texts. The course focuses on twentieth century women's writing, particularly as this reflects gender issues.
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Cílem tohoto kurzu je podnítit studenty k uplatnění poznatků a zkušeností nabytých studiem teorií genderu při četbě literárních textů. Seznamuje studenty s nejvýznamějšími díly ženských autorů a umožňuje jim aplikovat teorietické přístupy na interpretaci studovaných textů. Pozornost je věnovaná ženské literatuře dvacátého století, a to především z hlediska toho, jak odráží problémy genderu.
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Literature -
ADCOCK, F. ed., The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.
BARRETT, M. ed., Virginia Woolf - Women and Writing, London: The Women's Press, 1996
BOONER, F.; GOODMAN, L.; ALLEN, R.; JAMES, L.; KING, C. eds. Imagining Women - Cultural Representation and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press,1992.
CARR, H., ed. From My Guy to Sci-fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World, London: Pandora, 1989.
CIVELLO C.A. . Patterns of Ambivalence: The Poetry & Fiction of Stevie Smith. Columbia: Camden House, 1997.
CROWLEY, H.; HIMMELWEIGHT, S. eds., Knowing Women - Feminism and Knowledge, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.
Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 2nd Edition
EAGLETON, M., Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 2nd Revised Edition.
Wiley-Blackwell, 1995.
GILBERT, S.M & GUBAR, S. The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven & London: Yale University Press,1984.
GILBERT, S.M. & GUBAR, S. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2006.
HUMM, M. ed. Modern Feminisms, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
JACKSON, S. Women's Studies - A Reader, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
KAPLAN, C. "Speaking/Writing/Feminism," in On Gender and Writing ed. Michelene Wandor pp 51-60. London: Pandora, 1983.
LOVELL, T. Consuming Fiction, London: Verso, 1987.
MONTEFIORE, J. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. London: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora Press 2003.
RADCLIFFE RICHARDS, J. The Sceptical Feminist, London: Penguin, 1991.
REES-JONES, D. Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2005.
SELDEN, R.; WIDDOWSON, P. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, 3rd edition, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
SHOWALTER, E. Speaking of Gender, London: Routledge, 1983.
SHOWALTER, E. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing, expanded and revised, London: Virago, 1991.
SPENDER, D. Mothers of the Novel, London: Pandora, 1987.
SPENDER, D. Man Made Language, London: Routledge, 1985.
STRINATTI, D. Introduction to Popular Culture, London: Routledge, 1995.
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ADCOCK, F. ed., The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.
BARRETT, M. ed., Virginia Woolf - Women and Writing, London: The Women's Press, 1996
BOONER, F.; GOODMAN, L.; ALLEN, R.; JAMES, L.; KING, C. eds. Imagining Women - Cultural Representation and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press,1992.
CARR, H., ed. From My Guy to Sci-fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World, London: Pandora, 1989.
CIVELLO C.A. . Patterns of Ambivalence: The Poetry & Fiction of Stevie Smith. Columbia: Camden House, 1997.
CROWLEY, H.; HIMMELWEIGHT, S. eds., Knowing Women - Feminism and Knowledge, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.
Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 2nd Edition
EAGLETON, M., Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 2nd Revised Edition.
Wiley-Blackwell, 1995.
GILBERT, S.M & GUBAR, S. The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven & London: Yale University Press,1984.
GILBERT, S.M. & GUBAR, S. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2006.
HUMM, M. ed. Modern Feminisms, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
JACKSON, S. Women's Studies - A Reader, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
KAPLAN, C. "Speaking/Writing/Feminism," in On Gender and Writing ed. Michelene Wandor pp 51-60. London: Pandora, 1983.
LOVELL, T. Consuming Fiction, London: Verso, 1987.
MONTEFIORE, J. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. London: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora Press 2003.
RADCLIFFE RICHARDS, J. The Sceptical Feminist, London: Penguin, 1991.
REES-JONES, D. Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2005.
SELDEN, R.; WIDDOWSON, P. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, 3rd edition, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
SHOWALTER, E. Speaking of Gender, London: Routledge, 1983.
SHOWALTER, E. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing, expanded and revised, London: Virago, 1991.
SPENDER, D. Mothers of the Novel, London: Pandora, 1987.
SPENDER, D. Man Made Language, London: Routledge, 1985.
STRINATTI, D. Introduction to Popular Culture, London: Routledge, 1995.
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Syllabus -
Gender Issues in Contemporary literature II
This semester’s focus is on literary texts, particularly as they relate to gender issues. There will be three thematic units of study: an historical overview of postwar writing, a focus on radical strategies from the "second wave" and an exploration of diversity. Fortunately we now have a class set of The Norton Anthology of Women Writers, which contains most of the literary texts we will be looking at during the course. All of the texts are short stories, some of them very short, apart from the Toni Morrison, which is longer. You will also be provided with some short very extracts from the secondary texts specified (the extracts are mainly from Modern Feminisms, ed. Maggie Humm) to provide background. Copies of all these secondary texts will be provided for you, mainly in photocopies and occasionally electronically.
UNIT ONE
Week 1. Sylvia Plath - selected poems Week 2. Katherine Mansfield - The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour Week 3. Tillie Olsen - I Stand Here Ironing, Fay Weldon - Weekend Week 4. Doris Lessing - To Room 19 Secondary texts (short extracts) Gilbert and Gubar - The Madwoman in the AtticTillie Olsen - Silences Betty Friedan -The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1,"The Problem that Has No Name"
UNIT TWO
Radical questions and creative responses from the second wave. Week 5. Adrienne Rich - When We Dead Awaken, selected poems Week 6. Doris Lessing - One Off the Short List and Alice Munro - Wild Swans Week 7. Angela Carter - The Company of Wolves Week 8. Margaret Atwood - Rape Fantasies, There Was OnceSecondary texts (extracts) Pat Mainardi - The Politics of Housework, Kate Millett - Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex, Valerie Solanas - The SCUM Manifesto
UNIT THREE
Diversity of voice. We shall look at the work of two leading African American authors. Week 9. - Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Week 10. Toni Morrison - Sula Week 11. Issues in feminist literary criticism
Secondary texts (short extracts)Barbara Smith - Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Maggie Humm - Feminist CriticismAngela Davis - Women, Race and Class
Credit requirements: Full attendance and, as the course is seminar based, full participation (this particularly includes the necessity of reading the texts each week!). You will also have to produce an end of term paper on one of the literary texts discussed.
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Gender Issues in Contemporary literature II
This semester’s focus is on literary texts, particularly as they relate to gender issues. There will be three thematic units of study: an historical overview of postwar writing, a focus on radical strategies from the "second wave" and an exploration of diversity. Fortunately we now have a class set of The Norton Anthology of Women Writers, which contains most of the literary texts we will be looking at during the course. All of the texts are short stories, some of them very short, apart from the Toni Morrison, which is longer. You will also be provided with some short very extracts from the secondary texts specified (the extracts are mainly from Modern Feminisms, ed. Maggie Humm) to provide background. Copies of all these secondary texts will be provided for you, mainly in photocopies and occasionally electronically.
UNIT ONE
Week 1. Sylvia Plath - selected poems Week 2. Katherine Mansfield - The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour Week 3. Tillie Olsen - I Stand Here Ironing, Fay Weldon - Weekend Week 4. Doris Lessing - To Room 19 Secondary texts (short extracts) Gilbert and Gubar - The Madwoman in the AtticTillie Olsen - Silences Betty Friedan -The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1,"The Problem that Has No Name"
UNIT TWO
Radical questions and creative responses from the second wave. Week 5. Adrienne Rich - When We Dead Awaken, selected poems Week 6. Doris Lessing - One Off the Short List and Alice Munro - Wild Swans Week 7. Angela Carter - The Company of Wolves Week 8. Margaret Atwood - Rape Fantasies, There Was OnceSecondary texts (extracts) Pat Mainardi - The Politics of Housework, Kate Millett - Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex, Valerie Solanas - The SCUM Manifesto
UNIT THREE
Diversity of voice. We shall look at the work of two leading African American authors. Week 9. - Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Week 10. Toni Morrison - Sula Week 11. Issues in feminist literary criticism
Secondary texts (short extracts)Barbara Smith - Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Maggie Humm - Feminist CriticismAngela Davis - Women, Race and Class
Credit requirements: Full attendance and, as the course is seminar based, full participation (this particularly includes the necessity of reading the texts each week!). You will also have to produce an end of term paper on one of the literary texts discussed.
