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ASSESSMENT: Z, ZK (MA graded paper) Students must attend at least 70 % of the seminars (2-3 unexplained absences), short oral presentation – 20 % of the mark, active participation – 20 % of the mark, essay of 3,000 – 4,000 words (MA students 4000 words minimum) – 60 % of the mark ESSAY SPECIFICATIONS: - students are encouraged to choose their own topics, however, they will be given a list of broader topics which might inspire them - students must discuss their essay topic with the seminar leader before they starts writing - essay deadline is 7 December 2020 - essays will be corrected before Christmas or during the first week in January 2021 - if a student’s essay does not meet the standard (and receives a failing mark), the student will have the chance to resubmit his or her essay until the end of January 2021 PLEASE NOTE: Essays must include full bibliographical references and footnotes for all works cited or paraphrased (in accordance with the MLA style – consult “essay guidelines” on the department website). Students are advised not to use Internet sources in place of adequately researching texts available in print. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a fail grade. Number of credits: 5 (MA graded paper: 3 credits) Poslední úprava: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2020)
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SELECTED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES: BEER, Gillian. Virginia Woolf: the common ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [1996]. BENSTOCK, Shari, Suzanne FERRISS and Susanne WOODS. A handbook of literary feminisms. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. BRINNIN, John Malcolm. The third rose: Gertrude Stein and her world. New York: Grove Press, 1961. CIXOUS, Hélène, SELLERS, Susan, ed. The Helene Cixous reader [online]. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. DAVIS, Alex and Lee M. JENKINS, ed. The Cambridge companion to modernist poetry. Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press, 2007. FITZGERALD, Zelda. Save me the Waltz. London: Vintage Publishing, 2001. FRIEDMAN, Ellen G. and Miriam FUCHS, ed. Break the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. KRISTEVA, Julia. Desire in language: a semiotic approach to literature and art. Repr. (1982). Oxford: Blackwell, 1982. LEE, Hermione. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. London: Methuen & Co Ltd. 1977. LEVENSON, Michael Harry, ed. The Cambridge companion to modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. LEWIS, Leslie W. and Ann L. ARDIS, ed. Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. MANSFIELD, Katherine. The collected stories of Katherine Mansfield. London: Wordsworth Classics, [2006]. NIKOLCHINA, Miglena. Matricide in language: writing theory in Kristeva and Woolf. New York: Other Press, 2004. O’CONNOR, Flannery. The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc., 2018. RAINEY, Lawrence S. Modernism: an anthology. Malden: Blackwell, 2007. RHYS, Jean. The early novels: Voyage in the dark ; Quartet ; After leaving Mr Mackenzie ; Good morning, midnight. London: Deutsch, 1984. SCHRUPP, Antje. A brief history of feminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, [2017]. SCOTT, Bonnie Kime. Refiguring modernism: readings of Woolf, West, and Barnes. Vol. 2, Postmodern feminist. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Literary studies, Women's studies. WOOLF, Virginia. To the lighthouse. Repr. (1977). London: Granada, 1984. Panther Books. WOOLF, Virginia a Morag SHIACH. A Room of One's Own: Three Guineas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. World's Classics. WOOLF, Virginia. A haunted House and Other Short Stories. Repr. (1982). London: Triad Grafton Book, 1988. WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. New edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973. Penguin modern classic. Poslední úprava: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2020)
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WEEK-TO-WEEK SYLLABUS: Week 1 Introduction to modernism Reading: Virginia Woolf – essays “Modern Fiction,” “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown,” “Character in Fiction” Week 2 Virginia Woolf’s short fiction Reading: Virginia Woolf – short stories “Kew Gardens,” “The Mark on the Wall,” “Solid Objects,” “The Death of the Moth” Week 3 Virginia Woolf’s elegy Reading: Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse Week 4 Virginia Woolf’s feminism Reading: Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own, “Professions for Women” Week 5 Virginia Woolf and the limits of the novel Reading: Virginia Woolf - The Waves Week 6 Jean Rhys and women living on the margin of society Reading: Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight Week 7 Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction Reading: Katherine Mansfield - “Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day,” “Something Childish but Very Natural,” “Psychology,” “The Fly” Week 8 Djuna Barnes’s short fiction Reading: Djuna Barnes - “Mother,” “A Night Among the Horses,” “Aller et Retour,” “Little Girl Tells a Story to a Lady,” “The Passion” Week 9 Gertrude Stein’s “non-representational” poetry Reading: Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons, “Composition as Explanation” Week 10 Poems of Mina Loy and Nancy Cunard - feminism and racial justice Reading: Mina Loy - poems “The Effectual Marriage,” “Gertrude Stein,” “Joyce’s Ulysses,” “Human Cylinders”, essays “Aphorisms on Futurism” and “Modern Poetry” Nancy Cunard - poems “Wheels,” “The Carnival of Peace,” “Voyages North,” pamphlet “Black Man and White Ladyship,” essay “Harlem Reviewed” Week 11 Zelda Fitzgerald’s semi-autobiographical fiction Reading: Zelda Fitzgerald – novel Save Me the Waltz Week 12 Flannery O’Connor – Southern Gothic and American late modernism Reading: Flannery O’Connor – short stories “The Displaced Person,” “The Artificial Nigger,” “Good Country People,” “The River” Poslední úprava: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2020)
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