AJ16061 Women in Fiction and Theory

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 G32
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 20 student(s).
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Course objectives
This semester's course will consider approaches to the significance of individual fictional or idealised female (and male) figures in aspects of English-speaking poetry and fiction, looking at four novels (The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Daniel Deronda and Portrait of A Lady) and poetry by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Browning,E.B. Browning, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, Peter Reading and J.H. Prynne. The aim is to compare differences in approach both from female and male writers, and American and British writers in relation to the 19th century novels and the variety of perspectives provided by the chronological survey of poems from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. By the end of the course students will have produced an essay analysing some aspects of these differences and during the course they will be expected to engage in an analytical discussion based on close textual reading in relation to the individual poems and a broader sense of how the central female figure is deployed in relation to other elements in the four novels.
Syllabus
  • Week 1 Sept 23rd:INDUCTION WEEK: NO LESSON Week 2 Sept 30th: Introductory Week 3 Oct 7th: Nathaniel Hawthorne:The Scarlet Letter(1):Shakespeare: Sonnets 94, 129, 130, 138 Week 4 Oct 14th: The Scarlet Letter (2); Ben Jonson: A Celebration of Charis 1 to 10 Week 5 Oct 21st:Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1): Andrew Marvell: Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers; The Mower's Song; To His Coy Mistress: Nymph Complaining on the Death of her Faun Week 6 Oct 28th NATIONAL HOLIDAY NO CLASS Week 7 Nov 4th Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (2); Alexander Pope: Epistle to A Lady (Of the Characters of Women)Jonathan Swift; The Lady's Dressing Room Week 8 Nov 11th:George Eliot: Daniel Deronda(1); Wordsworth : Lucy Poems (Strange Fits of Passion; She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways;Three Years She Grew; A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal; I Travelled Among Unknown Lands) Week 9 Nov 18th READING WEEK NO CLASS Week 10 Nov 25th:George Eliot:Daniel Deronda(2);E.B. Browning: Sonnets from the Portugese (20, 21, 33, 43); Christina Rossetti -From Memory; 'I dream of you, to wake'; 'I loved you first'; Bride Song' Week 11: Dec 2nd: George Eliot; Daniel Deronda (3);W.B. Yeats: A Prayer For My Daughter Week 12:Dec.9th:Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady(1); Ezra Pound: Portrait d'une femme;The Garden;T.S. Eliot: Portait of a Lady. D.H. Lawrence: Lui et Elle Week 13: Dec.16th:Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady(2): J.H. Prynne: Her Wild Weasels Returning: Peter Reading: February 15th
Literature
    required literature
  • Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre London Penguin Classics
  • ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1990, 416 s. info
  • ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1990, 408 s. info
  • ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1990, 409 s. info
  • HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The scarlet letter :a romance. Edited by Nina Baym - Thomas E. Connolly. New York: Penguin Books, 1983, 285 s. ISBN 0-14-039019-7. info
  • BEDNAROWSKA, Dorothy. Henry James : the portrait of a lady. London: British Council, 1974, 10 s. info
    not specified
  • BROWNING, Robert. The poetical works of Robert Browning. London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 506 s. info
  • Woolf, Virginia A Room of One's Own London Faber and Faber
  • Haraway, Donna J Simians, Cyborgs and Women London Free Association Books 1991
  • Greer, Germaine The Female Eunuch
  • MARVELL, Andrew. The poems of Andrew Marvell. Edited by James Reeves - Martin Seymour-Smith. London: Heinemann, 1969, vi, 195 s. ISBN 0-435-15071-5. info
  • The world of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Robin Skelton - Ann Saddlemyer. Rev. ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967, x, 231. info
  • JONSON, Ben. The poems of Ben Jonson. Edited by Bernard H. Newdigate. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1936, xxviii, 42. info
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. The Noel Douglas replicas William Shakespeare Sonnets. London: Noel Douglas, 1926, [76] s. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading and weekly ninety minute seminar discussion including group or pairwork.
Assessment methods
Assessment: Oral contribution and attendance(40%) and essay (60%). Please note that essays devoted solely to the topic of 'The Scarlet Letter' or 'Jane Eyre' will not be accepted on this course.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=1942
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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