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This course deals with gender approaches to the study of literature. It
explores the ways in which critical and in-depth reading of literary works
can be approached using gender as an analytical tool, but it also goes
beyond the texts themselves and addresses both male and female literary
traditions. It also deals with the impact of feminism on literary studies.
The course focuses on works of the 20th century, addressing the
relationship between men and women as presented by authors who have
reflected or questioned the cultural and social values of their times. The
readings will cover four main areas: a general historical review of
literature and gender, including a study of the most important theory,
gender in the literature of the first half of the 20th century, including
the work of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, literature reflecting
the impact of the second wave Feminism in the 1960s, including works by
Adrienne Rich and Doris Lessing, and literature reflecting cultural and
ethnic diversity such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. This course also
introduces students to various aspects of literary criticism and
interpretation, paying attention to the depiction of men and women, the
concept of masculinity and femininity, including postmodern interpretations
of gender.
Last update: Jančovičová Ivana, Mgr. (27.05.2019)
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Distanční výuka předmětu bude probíhat v online prostředí Zoom – studenti budou informováni o podrobnostech emailem a první hodina bude věnována seznámení s tímto prostředím. Nároky na docházku budou platit stejné jako při prezenční výuce. Last update: Higgins Bernadette, M.A. (30.01.2021)
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Full attendance, an oral presentation at one of the seminars, the production of a paper based on your own research at the end of term. The course is seminar based and your full participation in debates will be encouraged.
Last update: Jančovičová Ivana, Mgr. (19.02.2018)
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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 BENHABIB, S.; BUTLER, J.; CORNEL, D.; FRASER, N. Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. London: Routledge, 1996. BOONER, F.; GOODMAN, L.; ALLEN, R.; JAMES, L.; KING, C. eds. Imagining Women - Cultural Representation and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press,1992. BORDO, S.; JAGGAR, A. eds. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Rutgers University Press, 1989. BUTLER, J. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity, London: Routledge, 1990. 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. Last update: Jančovičová Ivana, Mgr. (19.02.2018)
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· What is gender – basics and historical overview? A familiarisation of some of the ideas and debates surrounding the concept of gender. A consideration of the work and impact of the “First Wave” of feminist criticism, particularly Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir. · Gender and language and representation in popular culture (media, advertising etc.) Gender and language, Semiology – signs and meanings. · Gender and literature. Feminist literary criticism and the questioning of the traditional literary canon, e.g. Toril Moi, Dale Spender. · Literature from the early 20th century – Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin · Poetry – Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith · Literature and 'the angel in the house – Tillie Olsen, Fay Weldon, Doris Lessing (Betty Friedan, Pat Mainardi) · Literature from the second wave period – Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro (Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Valerie Solanas) · Literature of diversity – Alice Walker (Angela Davis, Barbora Smith) Last update: Jančovičová Ivana, Mgr. (19.02.2018)
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