AJL16061 Women in Fiction and Theory

Faculty of Arts
Spring 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
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:40 J22, except Wed 17. 4.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( AJ01002 Practical English II || AJL01002 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).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 8/20, only registered: 2/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This semester's course will consider aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century women’s fiction and elementy of twentieth century psychoanalytic and related feminist theory.. 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 of works on the course and how they relate to the development of modern female social identities.
Learning outcomes
Students who complete the course will have gained a better historical understanding of approaches to women and conceptualisations of the feminine as illustrated in the works covered. This understanding will be cultivated both through organised discussions and written analysis of relevant elements covered on the course.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Introductory Week 2: J. Austen: Pride and Prejudice: Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy: Feminism: Psychoanalytic Feminism:Sections 1-3 Week 3: M. Shelley: Frankenstein: Psychoanalytic Feminism: Section 4(French feminism) Week 4: NO CLASS: WILL BE REPLACED IN READING WEEK (WEEK 9) eek 5: C.Bronte: Jane Eyre (1): Stanford:Continental Feminism Week 6: C. Bronte: Jane Eyre(2): Stanford: Liberal Feminism Week 7: E.Bronte: Wuthering Heights: Stanford: Feminist Philosophy Week 8:: G. Eliot: Mill on the Floss (1); Feminist Perspectives on the Body, F.P. on Objectification Week 9: G. Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (2); Feminist Ethics; Feminist Aesthetics Week 10: V. Woolf: The Voyage Out (1); Feminist Perspectives on the Self; Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Week: 11: NATIONAL HOLIDAY: NO CLASS Week 12: NATIONAL HOLIDAY: NO CLASS Week 13: V. Woolf: The Voyage Out (2); Feminist Metaphysics Week 14: A. Carter: The Bloody Chamber; A Souvenir of Japan; Elegy for a Freelance
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
  • SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. London: Penguin Books, 2012, v, 268. ISBN 9780141198965. URL info
  • AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and sensibility. London: Penguin Books, 2006, 406 s. ISBN 9780141028156. info
  • 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
  • ELIOT, George. The mill on the floss. London: Penguin Books, 1994, vii, 534 s. ISBN 0-14-062027-3. info
  • BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith. World's Classics paperback e. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980, xxvii, 473. ISBN 019281513X. 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
  • BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering heights. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1946, 281 s. 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 & attendance (50%) and essay(6-8pages), double-spaced, type size 12)comparing aspects of at least two of the texts analysed on the course (50%). Essays should be sent to my IS e-mail address (33697@muni.cz). If you have not received a grade after 3 days please let me know.
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 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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