Gender Issues in Contemporary Literature I - OEB2301063

• Title: Gender Issues in Contemporary Literature I
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Explanation: Rok4,Rok5
• Old code: GISL
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Bernadette Higgins, M.A.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - bc.
• Classification: Teaching > English

Annotation

English

Last update: SVOBODAP/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (21.09.2010)

This course introduces students to some of the ideas and debates surrounding the concept of gender. Though students are encouraged to consider gender in its broader relationship to culture in general, the syllabus focuses on gender as it relates to the study of literature and begins with a consideration of the work and impact of the so-called First Wave of feminist criticism, particularly that of Virginia Woolf.

Czech

Last update: SVOBODAP/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (21.09.2010)

Tento kurz seznamuje studenty s některými myšlenkami a diskusemi spojenými s konceptem genderu. Studenti jsou jednak vedeni k pohledu na gender v širším kulturním kontextu, avšak především je tento koncept zkoumán z hlediska vztahu k literatuře, počínaje prací a dopadem tzv. první vlny feministické kritiky, zejména významem díla Virginie Woolfové.

Literature

Last update: SVOBODAP/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (21.09.2010)

1.Michele Barrett ed. (1979). Virginia Woolf -- Women and Writing. Harvest.

2. Stevi Jackson (1993). Women´s Studies -- A Reader. Harvester.

3. Dale Spender (1987). Mothers of the Novel. Pandora. London.

Syllabus

English

Last update: HIGGINS/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (19.01.2012)

Unit One

What is gender? 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. Other supplementary texts will be used.

TOPICS: What is gender? Introduction to general concepts - Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own and Professions for Women - Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Unit Two

Gender and representation. Consideration will be given to representations of gender in popular culture (media, advertising etc.) TOPICS: Gender and language - Semiology - signs and meanings, Gender and representation - Gender and Education

Unit Three

Gender and literature. Part of the achievement of feminist literary criticism has been to question the coherence of the traditional canon as well as to develop new approaches to literary interpretation. An overview of trends in feminist literary theory will aid our interpretations of texts

TOPICS: Women writers and the literary canon - Mothers of the Novel - Feminist Literary Criticism

Course Requirements: 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.