AJ16061 Women in Fiction and Theory

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
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
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:30–14:05 G25
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
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Course objectives
This semester's course will consider approaches to the significance of the feminine and the masculine as socio-cultural constructs in aspects of British poetry and fiction. By the end of the course students will have produced an essay analysing some aspects of these approaches and during the course they will be expected to engage in analytical discussion based on close textual reading in relation to the individual poems and works of fiction, considering how how the central female figures are deployed in relation to other elements in the literature considered.
Syllabus
  • Propsective participants on the course are advised that 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman ' are available in e-prezencka form from the library Week 1: Introductory Week 2: Ovid: Amores Book I; J. Austen: Persuasion (Book I) Week 3: Dante: La Vita Nuova; Persuasion: (Book 2) Week 4: T.Wyatt: 'Whoso list To hunte../'They flee from me...'; P.Sidney: Sonnet 71 (LXXI): 'Who will in fairest booke of nature knowe'; Shakespeare: Sonnets 94 (CXIV), 129 (CXXIX), 130 (CXXX), 138 (CXXXVIII); C.Bronte: Jane Eyre (1) Week 5: J.Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning; A Noctural Upon St Lucie's Day: The Relic: Holy Sonnet 14 (XIV)(Batter my heart, three-personed God; Jane Eyre (2) Week 6:B.Jonson:The Triumph of Charis; R. Crashaw: Wished to His Supposed Mistress: T. Hardy: The Well Beloved (1) Week 7: J. Milton: Paradise Lost Book IV: T.Hardy: The Well-Beloved (2) Week 8: A. Marvell: The Mower's Song; Picture of Little T.C. in a Prsopect of Flowers; Wishes to His Supposed Mistress; V. Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (all) Week 9: J. Swift: The Lady's Dressing Room; A.Pope To A Lady; D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1) Week 10: Lord Byron: Don Juan: Book I; Lady Chatterely's Lover (2) Week 11: Wordsworth: Lucy Poems; Stella Gibbon;Cold Comfort Farm (all) Week 12: C. Rossetti: Remember Me; Goblin Market; J. Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1) Week 13: J.H. Prynne: Her Wild Weasels Returning: The French Lieutenant's Woman (2)
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
  • Haraway, Donna J Simians, Cyborgs and Women London Free Association Books 1991
  • Woolf, Virginia A Room of One's Own London Faber and Faber
  • Greer, Germaine The Female Eunuch
  • FOWLES, John. The french lieutenant's woman. London: Vintage, 2004, 445 s. ISBN 0099478331. info
  • AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion. Edited by Derek Strange. Harlow: Penguin Books, 1999, v, 40. ISBN 0582401372. info
  • LAWRENCE, David Herbert. Lady Chatterley's lover. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, 314 s. ISBN 0-14-062250-0. info
  • 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 (5-8 pages comparing aspects of at least two of the texts analysed on the course(60%).The essay has the status of an exam and needs to be registered for. Essays should be submitted in hard copy form.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
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 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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