AJL14063 Virginia Woolf: Woman, Writer

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will consider most of the major novels by Virginia Woolf as well as aspects of her early work and non-fictional writing. By the end of the course the student will have written an essay demonstrating their ability to analyse aspects of Virginia Woolf's major fiction.Students will be expected to demonstrate and develop the skills of developing a specific point or argument supported by provision and apposite analysis of related textual material, both orally, in class, and in written form in their essay.In terms of content. Students will be expected to discern ways in which Woolf's conception of the significance of life as creative movement both develops and overlaps with comparable projects, particularly in the British, but also in the French and German contexts of the same period and how this preoccupation interlinks with questions of gender, sexuality, individuality, and with relations between word, thought and sensation and thereby with the process of writing.
Learning outcomes
Students completing the course will have gained an understanding of Woolf's developing approach to writing, the particular concerns and approaches of her major novels and an understanding of aspects of the cultural context in which they were produced.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:.Introductory Week 2: Moments of Being etc (1) Week 3: Moments of Being etc (2) Week 4: The Voyage Out(1) Week 5: The Voyage Out(2) Week 6: Jacob's Room (1) Week 7: 31.10:READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 8: Jacob's Room (2) Week 9: Mrs Dalloway Week 10:To the Lighthouse Week 11:The Waves (1) Week 12:The Waves (2) Week 13:Between the Acts
Literature
  • To the light house (Přít.) : Jacob's room ; Mrs Dalloway ; To the light house ; The waves. info
  • DUSINBERRE, Juliet. Virginia Woolf's renaissance :woman reader or common reader? Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1997, xiii, 281. ISBN 0-333-68104-5. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's room ; Mrs Dalloway ; To the light house ; The waves. Edited by Virginia Woolf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, viii, 575. ISBN 019282287X. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981, xii, 371 s. ISBN 0-14-005283-6. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, xxviii, 35. ISBN 0-14-005282-8. info
  • BELL, Quentin. Virginia Woolf :a biography. London: Hogarth Press, 1972, 300 s. ISBN 0-7012-0371-4. info
  • MARDER, Herbert. Feminism & art : a study of Virginia Woolf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968, ix, 190. info
  • MOODY, Anthony David. Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963, 119 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The years : a novel. London: Pan Books, 1948, 327 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. Between the acts. London: Hogarth Press, 1941, 256 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. A room of one's own. New ed. London: Hogarth Press, 1931, 172 s. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading,and weekly, ninety minute seminar discussion and groupwork.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be by essay (5-8 pages)(60%), and oral contribution (40%).Please note that the essay is an exam and that you need to regiaster for it.The essay should be clearly related to texts taught on the course and must be submitted in hard copy form.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=863
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